"I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored."
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"The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves."
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"The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it."
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"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants"
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"There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological."
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"The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it."
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"The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion."
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"Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude."
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"Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life."
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"The principal fact of life is the free mind."
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"[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts."
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"Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being."
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"Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary."
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"I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact."
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"Tell the truth and not the facts."
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"Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures."
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"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
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"... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds"
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"The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred"
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"The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry."
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