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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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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

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Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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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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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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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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Facts can obscure the truth.

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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

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By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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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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