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"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Fact, Plants, Variety

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"Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand."

"Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand."

John Moody, American Businessman

Fact, Laws, Managers, Public

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"With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!"

"With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!"

Michael Musto, American Writer

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"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

"So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

Fact, Now, Potential, Research

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"In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide."

"In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Fact, Order, Poor, Solidarity

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"That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim."

"That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation."

"I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation."

Javier Cuadros, American Scientist

Fact, Global warming, Man, Weather

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"In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa."

"In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa."

Claudio Hummes, Brazilian Cardinal

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"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."

"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."

Theo Van Gogh, Dutch Director

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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."

"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."

Sid Vicious, English Musician

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"As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today."

"As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today."

Jim Costa, American Politician

Fact, Ladies, Gentlemen, Security

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"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

"In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think."

Neil Innes, British Writer

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"I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently."

"I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently."

Richard King, American Director

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

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

Mark Spitz, American Athlete

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

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

Ben Okri, Nigerian Poet

Fact, Imperfection

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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact."

"A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact."

Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor

Fact, Man, Old, Theory

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"The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one."

"The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one."

Malcolm Campbell, English Celebrity

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"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

"I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't."

Jonathan Dimbleby, British Writer

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"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."

"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then."

"Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then."

James Young, American Musician

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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."

James Herriot, British Writer

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"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."

"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."

Frederick Pollock, English Judge

Fact, Revolution, Merit, Will

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"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."

"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."

Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

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$"It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it."$

"It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it."

Francis William Aston, British Scientist

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

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

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Fact, Facts, Ignorance, Theory

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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

"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

Fact, Thinking, Tradition, James M. Baldwin

"If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature."

"If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature."

Martin Fleischmann, English Scientist

"Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space."

"Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space."

Leon Foucault, French Inventor

Fact, Moments, Sense, Space

"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."

"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."

F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Fact, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."

Hesketh Pearson, English Actor

Fact, Man, Obvious, Pride

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Fact, Necessity

"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Randall Jarrell, American Poet

Fact, Facts, Obvious

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."

"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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