"Facts are counterrevolutionary."

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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

James Herriot, British Writer

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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."

Sid Vicious, English Musician

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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Randall Jarrell, American Poet

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

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"Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space."

Leon Foucault, French Inventor

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"All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean."

Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

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"If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

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"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

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"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

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"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

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"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

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"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

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