"If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them."
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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things"
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"A logical picture of facts is a thought."
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"Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life."
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"Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension."
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"In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer."
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"One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions."
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"As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day."
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"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work."
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"My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism."
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"The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact."
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"There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market."
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"If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing."
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"We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events."
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"There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out."
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"I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one."
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"It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd."
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"Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them."
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"Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable."
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"'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not."
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