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Fact Quotes
"The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma."
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"Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened."
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"The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one."
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"In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own."
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"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."
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"The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat."
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"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed."
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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."
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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
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"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
Fact,
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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."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
Fact,
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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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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."
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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."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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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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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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