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"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."
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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."
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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
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"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."
Geometry
"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars."
People
"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."
Fact
"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."
Men
"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope."
Hope
"There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it."
Men
"You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough."
Love
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have."
Music
"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them."
Men
"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."
Men
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