"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
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"The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity."
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"God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know."
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"The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell."
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"If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts."
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"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman."
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"The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing."
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"The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter."
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"I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."
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"There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live."
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"If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God."
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"Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact."
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"If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create."
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"You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!"
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"A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin"
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"I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad."
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"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
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"If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers."
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"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?"
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"To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do."
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