"For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life."
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"Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded."
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"The fact that you've got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally."
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"Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion."
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"In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it"
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"We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it."
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"The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will."
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"The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact."
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"The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?"
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"The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs."
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"The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts."
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"No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for."
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"The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong."
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"The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society in which woman must serve him if she is to survive."
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"Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts."
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"The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost."
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"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
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"It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again."
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"The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it."
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"Truth in science is always determined from observational facts."
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