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"It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far."
"We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others."
"Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact come to know anything."
"The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience."
"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."
"The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live."
"There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God."
"The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith."
"The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it."
"The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age."
"A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it."
"I have a bad memory for facts."
"I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy."
"The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed."
"In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense."
"we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts."
"Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many."
"If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."
"Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down."
"Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself."
