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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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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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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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Facts speak plainer than words

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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

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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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No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

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

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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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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

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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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I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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