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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

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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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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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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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Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

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

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Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

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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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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 genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

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I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

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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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What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.

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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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