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"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
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"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."

"There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking."

"Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run."

"I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

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

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
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"The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed."

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
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