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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

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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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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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

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There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

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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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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

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

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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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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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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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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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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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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

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