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Fact Quotes
"Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person."
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"In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University."
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"Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous."
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"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."
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"Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more."
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"As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me."
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"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."
Fact,
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"In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid."
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"I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium."
Fact,
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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."
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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."
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"Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off."
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"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact."
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"In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms."
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"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
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"Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles."
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"I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective."
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"Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist."
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"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."
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"I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy."
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"What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin."
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"I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean."
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"In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted."
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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."
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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."
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"We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great."
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"Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it."
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"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."
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"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."
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"You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself."
Fact,
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"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read."
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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."
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"It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out."
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