"I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough."
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"I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates."
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"Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts."
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"The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition."
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"It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own."
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"It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground."
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"Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation."
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"The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another."
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"We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important."
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"The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery."
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"We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts."
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"Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ."
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"I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case."
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"Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born."
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"John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence."
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"In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns."
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"I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything."
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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"Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them."
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"The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete."
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