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"I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it."
"L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me" me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love."
"Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite."
"If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish."
"It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact."
"In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average."
"I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts."
"Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside."
"I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact."
"What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts."
"The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is."
"To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia."
"It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them."
"Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy."
"The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it."
"There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality."
"It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society ."
"Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts."
"Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time."
"It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental."
