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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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"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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"In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form."
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"Facts do not speak."
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
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"The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story."
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"If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all."
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"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
Woman

"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
Man

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
Art

"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
Fact

"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
Merit

"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
Reputation

"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
Pleasure

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
Army

"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Crime

"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
Government
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