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"When you talk about Social Security, it's not just enough to say, we're looking at you, this really matters. It's the fact that a million Americans think it matters. Oh, wait, it's 2 million Americans think it matters. No, it's 4 million Americans. It's 6 million, wait, it's 10 million, it's 50 million Americans who care about this. That's how we're going to make change."
"I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow."
"In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling."
"In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English."
"Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so."
"Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything."
"In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth."
"My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet."
"I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact."
"I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts."
"The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality."
"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
"There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this."
"You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor."
"There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life."
"In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side."
"And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that"
"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."
"It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive."
"Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them."
