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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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

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

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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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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

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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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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

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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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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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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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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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