"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."

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"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."

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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."

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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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

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"All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean."

Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

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"The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all."

Al Alvarez, English Poet

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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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."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

"All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

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"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."

"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."

"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."

"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own."

"Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not."