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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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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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We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

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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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I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

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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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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

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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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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

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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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The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on 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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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 multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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

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