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"Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed."
"My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe."
"He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith."
"The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection."
"In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth."
"But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God."
"I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage."
"Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience."
"Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact."
"Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact."
"The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering."
"In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story."
"The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method."
"Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things."
"It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others."
"Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror."
"I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics."
"Truth is independent of facts always."
"The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value."
"There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]"
