"With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!"

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"With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!"

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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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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

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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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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials."

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"By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all."

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"I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose."

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"The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying."

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