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"There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short."

Mind Lying Facts
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries."

Writing Facts Dictionary
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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away."

Facts Example Bars
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi."

People Facts Phones
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image."

Soul Facts Suffering
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence."

Facts Example Yield
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Robert Smith Musician
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"I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me."

Facts Pages Messages
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Octavia Butler Author, Novelist
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"A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't."

Thinking Way Facts
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances."

Years Facts Difficult Questions
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place."

Names Facts Leader
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Zhuangzi Philosopher
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"Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right."

Ifs Facts Exaggeration
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Immanuel Wallerstein Sociologist
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"What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?"

Facts Lines Arguing
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed."

Thinking Facts Brain
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