"and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world."
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"The act of listening is in fact an act of composing."
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"I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised."
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"Learn, compare, collect the facts!"
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"I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition."
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"IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards."
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"You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you."
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"Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts."
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"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."
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"Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument."
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"The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see."
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"I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel."
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"You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities."
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"The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact."
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"Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise."
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"We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength."
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"Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]."
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"I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings."
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"A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way."
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"Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life."
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