"The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying."
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"If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact."
"Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now."
"The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say."
"It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird."
"I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence."
"Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered."
"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
"There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important."
"When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions."
"Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner."
"The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now."
"I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed."
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!"
"Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin."
"Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know."
"Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . ."
"If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage."
"Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything."
"Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now."