"Facts are counterrevolutionary."

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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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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."

J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

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"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."

Simon Pegg, British Comedian

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"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."

Jenny Agutter, English Actress

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"In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role."

Sarah Chalke, Canadian Actress

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact."

Mark Spitz, American Athlete

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

People

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Evil

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

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"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."

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"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

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"It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."

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"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."

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