"While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes."
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"Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it."
"Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."
"It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts."
"I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do."
"In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life."
"It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting."
"A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments."
"You can't let facts get in the way of the truth."
"Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on."
"Some people say that it's so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There's so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that's just getting into business."
"The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact"
"The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love."
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
"Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me."
"I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!"
"The world divides into facts."
"We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry."
"What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?"
"No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts."