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"I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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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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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way."
Life
"I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone."
Change
"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well."
Happiness
"I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be."
Evil
"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."
Happiness
"I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts."
Fact
"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."
Deception
"Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too."
Radical
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