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"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
"The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English."
"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."
"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
"For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly."
"Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders."
"Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari."
"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
"It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me."
"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock."
"There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings."
"I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude."
"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy."
"Don't let your image, don't let your size, hold you back. If I had let my hips or my jiggly thighs hold me back or the fact that I've got these big heavy breasts, then I would not be where I am today."
"School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts."
"I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won."
"Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored."
"Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself."
"Don’ you worry, Harry. You’ll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you’ll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it’s hard. Yeh’ve been singled out, an’ that’s always hard. But yeh’ll have a great time at Hogwarts — I did — still do, ’smatter of fact."
"One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings."
