"Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds."
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"That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few."
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"Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact."
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"The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature."
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"The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed."
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"Facts are true whether or not you believe them."
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"You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future."
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"They're ugly, but those are the facts of life."
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"Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life."
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"I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier."
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"The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing."
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"Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry."
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"We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are."
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"The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success"
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"The fatal futility of Fact."
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"In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book."
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"Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass."
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"And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are."
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"Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact."
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"In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors"
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