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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."
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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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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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"I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem."
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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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"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."
Lie
"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress."
War
"Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill."
Decision
"There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare."
People
"If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."
War
"We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right."
Right
"The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far."
Fact
"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."
Question
"President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it."
People
"Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam."
War
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