"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."

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"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."

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

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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

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

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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

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"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see."

Joan Jett, American Musician

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"The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star."

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"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."

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"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

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"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?"

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"The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face."

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"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."

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"A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."

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