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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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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
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"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."
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"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."
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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."
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me."
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"I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem."
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"We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed."
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"Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows."
Food
"It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him."
Family
"At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly."
Youth
"Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt."
Agreement
"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."
Age
"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."
Man
"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?"
Love
"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."
Future
"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."
Fact
"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
Criticism
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