"Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory."
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"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you."
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"Facts are stupid things stubborn things, I should say."
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"It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact."
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"Things always become obvious after the fact"
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"Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction."
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"A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes."
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"The room within is the great fact about the building."
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"It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't."
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"Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects."
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"We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
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"The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress."
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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."
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"The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature."
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"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
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"The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid."
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"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."
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"Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding."
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"Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact."
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