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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Fact, Now, Talking, Walking

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Fact, Want

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Fact, Facts, Theories

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Fact, Flags

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Fact,

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

Fact, Giving, Man, Nothing

"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

Fact, Interest

"If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels."

Fred Ward, American Actor

Fact, Woman

"I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything."

Rupert Holmes, English Composer

Fact, Want

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

William James, American Philosopher

Fact, Facts, Religious, Temper

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"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."

Trouble

"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."

Death

"I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation."

Evil

"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."

Cows

"My first occupation was to map the country."

Country

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

Work

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."

Events

"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."

Travel

"The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion."

Fact