"Facts and particulars annoy me."
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"Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all."
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"If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to."
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"I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person."
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"There does, in fact, appear to be a plan."
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"Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts."
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"The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact."
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"The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took."
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"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."
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"While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations."
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"Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own."
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"Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda."
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"My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system"
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"Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth."
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"I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me."
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"It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other."
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"Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy."
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"I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts."
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