"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Fact, Facts, Theories

"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

Fact, Film, Reading, Theatre

"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

Fact, School, Want

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Fact, Wishes

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Fact, Facts

"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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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

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"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."

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"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

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"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

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"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

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

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

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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."

"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."