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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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Personal Development
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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Personal Development
"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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Personal Development
"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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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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Personal Development
"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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Personal Development
"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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Personal Development
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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Personal Development
"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
Man
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
Politics
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
Home
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
Man
"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."
Fact
"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
Age
"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
Life
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
American
"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."
Misunderstanding
"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
Manners
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