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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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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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"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."
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"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."
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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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"The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force."
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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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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
Inspirational
"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
American
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
Act
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
Man
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
Creativity
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
Forgiveness
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
Health
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
Ethics
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
Man
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