"A concept is stronger than a fact."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American Writer

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

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."

J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

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"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."

Simon Pegg, British Comedian

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"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."

Jenny Agutter, English Actress

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"In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role."

Sarah Chalke, Canadian Actress

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact."

Mark Spitz, American Athlete

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"Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive."

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"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."

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"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution."

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"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."

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