"These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides."
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"No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person."
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"Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures."
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"In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit."
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"I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything."
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"The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him."
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"Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations."
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"The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry."
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"A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture."
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"You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion."
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"Morale is boosted to high highs by accomplishment. In fact, it can be demonstrated that production is the basis of morale."
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"It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers."
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"One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time."
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"A little-known fact about me: I read all the time."
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"A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while."
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"I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity."
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"Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly."
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"This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom."
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"I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation."
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"I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there."
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