"A picture is a fact."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor

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"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

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"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"The facts are on our side."

Karen Hughes, American Politician

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"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

Katey Sagal, American Athlete

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"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

Neil Innes, British Writer

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards."

"The facts are on our side."

"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."