Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Facts Quotes, Chill Quotes

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

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The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

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All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

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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.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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