"I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down."
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"The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality."
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"Facts may speak for themselves."
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"A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact."
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"I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts."
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"It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it."
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"Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit."
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"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."
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"All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight."
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"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."
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"If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing."
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"In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times."
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"Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that in the case of the development of moral systems; there's a biological endowment which in effect requires us to develop a system of moral judgment and a theory of justice, if you like, that in fact has detailed applicability over an enormous range."
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"Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact."
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"The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions."
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"In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature."
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"Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative."
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"Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you."
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"On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful."
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"The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite."
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