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"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact."

"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact."

Benoit Mandelbrot, French Mathematician

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

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

Nathan Deal, American Politician

Fact, Nations, Research, Support

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"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read."

"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read."

Susie Bright, American Writer

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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."

"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."

Dweezil Zappa, American Musician

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"I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it."

"I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it."

Wallis Simpson, American Royalty

Fact, Light, Will, World

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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

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"Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world."

"Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

Fact, World, Years

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"I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me."

"I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me."

Ryan White, American Celebrity

Fact, Facts, Kids, Parents, School

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"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."

"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."

Paul Muldoon, English Poet

Fact, Influence, Ireland, Writers

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"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."

"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."

Frances McDormand, American Actress

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"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."

"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."

Joel Coen, American Director

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"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."

"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."

Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist

Fact, Name, Now, Public

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"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."

"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American Journalist

Fact, Light, Meaning, Water

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"A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah."

"A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

Fact, Facts, Judgment

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"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks."

"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks."

Alexis Bledel, American Actress

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"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."

Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist

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"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."

"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."

Tom Wolfe, American Journalist

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"The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts."

"The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts."

Charles Henry Parkhurst, American Clergyman

Fact, Facts, Words

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"The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself."

"The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself."

Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman

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"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that."

"What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that."

William Scranton, American Politician

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"We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance."

"We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance."

Guy Ritchie, British Director

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"We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine."

"We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine."

Anne Wilson Schaef, American Psychologist

Fact, Medicine, Remedies, Value

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"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

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"Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them."

"Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them."

Blair Underwood, American Actor

Fact, Now, Production, Rules

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"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"

"Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?"

Garrett Fort, American Writer

Fact, Superstition, Tomorrow, Yesterday

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"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."

"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."

Dorothy Thompson, American Journalist

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"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."

"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

Fact, Facts, Nothing

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"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."

"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Fact, Law, Nixon

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"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."

"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."

Robert Redford, American Actor

Fact, Nothing, Now, Pretty

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"Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years."

"Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years."

Gerry Mulligan, American Musician

Fact, Writing, Years

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"But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders."

"But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders."

Julius Streicher, German Soldier

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"The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves."

"The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves."

David Seabury, American Psychologist

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"Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two."

"Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two."

Caryl Chessman, American Celebrity

Fact, Light, Names

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"I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!"

"I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!"

Mackenzie Crook, English Actor

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"Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."

"Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."

Sonia Sotomayor, American Judge

Fact, Facts, Judges

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"I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged."

"I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged."

Derek Jacobi, British Actor

Fact, Profession, Sense

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"Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal."

"Yeah, yeah I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions towards the band. The biggest one is that we're Satan worshippers, but next to that just the fact that we're normal."

Tom Araya, American Musician

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"I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district."

"I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district."

Jim Costa, American Politician

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"In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment."

"In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment."

Steven Hatfill, American Scientist

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"Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion."

"Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion."

Peter Coyote, American Actor

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"In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners."

"In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners."

Pete Rozelle, American Celebrity

Fact, Influence

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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."

"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."

Norton Juster, American Architect

Fact, Information

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"And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure."

"And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure."

Hjalmar Schacht, German Economist

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"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."

"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

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"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name."

"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name."

Ugo Betti, Italian Playwright

Fact, Giving, Name

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

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

Bliss Carman, Canadian Poet

Fact, Facts, Investigation

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"Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish."

"Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish."

Larry David, American Actor

Fact, May, Nothing

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"One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe."

"One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe."

Kevin J. Anderson, American Writer

Fact, May, Universe

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"The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like."

"The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like."

John Sherman Cooper, American Politician

Fact, Man, Tests

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