"Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected."
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"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords."
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"When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical."
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"Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad."
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"There is no science without fancy and no art without fact."
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"It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve everyone's problems and lead them to a happy, fulfilled life. They have to figure that out on their own."
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"Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows."
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"In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily."
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"The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted."
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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."
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"It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others."
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"It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it."
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"I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry."
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact"
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"I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable."
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"I love the fact that I'm bad at [things]."
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"Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!"
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"The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say."
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"In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer."
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"The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal."
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