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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it."
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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
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