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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"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."

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

"A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection."

"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
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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."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."


"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."


"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."


"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."


"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."


"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."


"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman."
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