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"There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you."
"A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place."
"There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary."
"I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact."
"The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack."
"Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it."
"The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to."
"It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting."
"The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter."
"We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it."
"Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile."
"No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong."
"One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold."
"My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true."
"Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums."
"In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon."
"The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh."
"Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position."
"the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't."
"Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?"
