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"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Fact, Facts, Machine

"In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia."

Alex Chiu, American Businessman

Fact, Popular

"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Fact, Facts, Laws, Machine, Mind

"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."

Robert Redford, American Actor

Fact, Nothing, Now, Pretty

"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Fact, Facts

"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

Fact, Now, Scotland, Sea

"There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship."

Barbara Olson, American Journalist

Fact, Question

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Fact, Facts, Ignorance, Theory

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Fact, Parents, Wishing, Wrong

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Fact,

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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."

Fashion

"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."

Nature

"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."

Modernity

"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."

Hope

"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."

Death

"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language."

Action

"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."

Time

"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."

Language

"Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts."

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