"Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea."
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"What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality."
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"Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing."
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"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad."
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"I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny."
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"Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified."
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"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts."
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
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"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side."
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"Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of."
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"But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them."
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"The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly."
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"To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?"
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"Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact."
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"We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom."
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"I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review."
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"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
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"I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less."
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"It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with."
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"It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him."
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