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"No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself."
"It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others."
"In fact, I am never wrong."
"The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions."
"One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves."
"The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition."
"We naturally assume that our mental structures are universal. But I suppose an outside biologist looking at us would see something very different. He would see that, like other organisms, we have a narrow sphere within which we are very good, but that sphere is very limited. And that, in fact, the very achievements we can have within that sphere are related to lack of achievements in other spheres."
"There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light."
"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
"You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure."
"We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem."
"The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry."
"Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage."
"Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced."
"The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case."
"Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."
"No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist."
"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter."
"I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts."
"Facts and credibility only support persuasion."
