"In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled."
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"UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!"
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"If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say."
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"No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing."
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"We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost."
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"To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism."
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"What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values."
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"Envy is the central fact of American life."
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"In fact living is dying."
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"In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms."
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"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction."
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"In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves."
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"The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him."
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"Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain."
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"We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl."
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"I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it."
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"For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite."
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"The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master."
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"Facts can obscure the truth."
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"I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write."
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