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"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

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

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."

"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."

"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."

"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."

"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."

"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."

"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
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