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"The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities."
"In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own."
"We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods."
"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes."
"What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity."
"It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own."
"My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly."
"If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot."
"What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself."
"Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings."
"Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed."
"Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take."
"The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words."
"It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group."
"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar."
"One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts."
"[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing."
""not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming"."
"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
"Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous."
