"My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff."
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"I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them."
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"In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week."
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"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end."
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"The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore."
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here."
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"A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch."
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"We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific."
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"Separate the story - your story - from facts."
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"People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact."
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"In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding."
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"Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction."
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"I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true."
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"In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them."
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"I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please."
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"I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts."
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"It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it"
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"You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!"
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"Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded."
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"Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't."
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