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

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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."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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

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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."

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

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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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"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."

John Bright, British Politician

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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

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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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

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

Explore more quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."