"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see."

Joan Jett, American Musician

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"The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star."

Piper Laurie, American Actress

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"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."

Charles Hodge, American Theologian

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"These are facts, these are not imaginary things."

Iyad Allawi, Iraqi Statesman

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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."

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"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

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"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."

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"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."

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"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being."

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

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see."

"The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star."

"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

"These are facts, these are not imaginary things."

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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."

"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."

"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."

"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being."

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."

"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being."

"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."

"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."