"If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix."
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"I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival."
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"Good shoes - they're the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house."
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"If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell"
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"Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it – even though others may hesitate or differ."
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"The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do."
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"You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it."
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"So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet."
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"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
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"It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it."
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"Paranoia is knowing all the facts."
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"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again"
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"People forget facts, but they remember stories."
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"Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility."
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"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin."
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"The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living."
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"No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise."
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"The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone"
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"Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons."
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"I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not."
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