"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."

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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."

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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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"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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"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

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"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor

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"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

Marion Jones, American Athlete

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Carter Burwell, American Composer

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Karen Hughes, American Politician

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"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

"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."

"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

"I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards."

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"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

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