"Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her."
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"We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present."
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"In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity."
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"It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching."
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"The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows."
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"No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers."
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"Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art"
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"I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon."
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"There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life."
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"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
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"We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are."
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"... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades."
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"No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament"."
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"Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction."
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"When facts speak, the wise man listens."
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"The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it."
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"The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before."
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"Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks."
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"We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles."
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"This is the great fact: strength is life."
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