"Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly."
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"The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!"
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"Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want"
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"By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction."
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"In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety."
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"If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method."
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"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."
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"God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is."
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"The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact."
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"We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment."
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"The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy."
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"Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them."
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"In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them."
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"I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died."
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"I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf."
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"If in fact the Republicans make some modifications [of Obamacare], some of which I may have been seeking previously, but they wouldn't cooperate because they didn't wanna make the system work, and re-label it as Trumpcare, I'm fine with that."
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"Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true."
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"If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously."
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"The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good."
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"The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon."
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