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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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"Facts do not speak."
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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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"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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"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."
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"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."
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"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."
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"The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one."
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"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
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"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."
Fate
"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."
Confidence
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
Fact
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
Writing
"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"
Wisdom
"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he."
Intelligence
"The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated."
Education
"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
Mystery
"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"
Community
"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."
Fact
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