"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."

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"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."

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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."

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"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."

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"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."

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"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."

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"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"

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"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."

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"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

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"By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is excellent!''Then I am your man.''I was sure that I might rely on you."

Ethics

"It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

Goodness

"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."

Escape

"I am somewhat exhausted, I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?"

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