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"There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit."
"In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power."
"Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him."
"This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise."
"If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner."
"All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning."
"Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes."
"Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight."
"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."
"The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy"
"Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."
"When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything."
"The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time."
"I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things."
"Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you."
"In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity."
"I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something."
"The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength"
"Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential."