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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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"All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean."

"All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean."

Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

Fact, Facts, Trying

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"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."

"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."

Kenneth Starr, American Lawyer

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

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"No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts."

"No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts."

Norman Lamm, American Educator

Fact, Facts, May, Religious, Theories

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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

Martin Heidegger, German Philosopher

Fact, Language, Man

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"I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'"

"I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'"

Gwen Stefani, American Musician

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"Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian."

"Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian."

Penelope Cruz, Spanish Actress

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"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."

"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."

Antony Jay, British Writer

Fact, Opposition, Service

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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."

Edward Carpenter, English Activist

Fact, Obvious, Value

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"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."

"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."

Jack Vance, American Author

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"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."

"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

Fact, Research, Years

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"A picture is a fact."

"A picture is a fact."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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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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"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."

"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."

Bliss Carman, Canadian Poet

Fact, Facts, Investigation, Tyranny

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"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin."

"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."

"A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person."

Edward W. Howe, American Novelist

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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."

"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."

Richard Le Gallienne, English Poet

Fact, Melancholy, Prophecy, Youth

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"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."

"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."

Honor Blackman, British Actress

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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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"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact."

"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact."

Helen Reddy, Australian Actress

Fact, Hindsight

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"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Fact, Facts, Machine

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"I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!"

"I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!"

Sally Field, American Actress

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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."

"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."

Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss Educator

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"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."

"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Fact, Facts, Laws, Machine, Mind

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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."

"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."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

Fact, Perspective, Will

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"We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her."

"We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her."

Patricia Heaton, American Actress

Fact, Fun, Help, Job

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"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."

"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."

Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat

Fact, Meaning, Word

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"He who allows me to rule is in fact my master."

"He who allows me to rule is in fact my master."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."

"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."

Michael Shermer, American Writer

Fact, Literary, Myth

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"To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many."

"To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many."

Vladimir Putin, Russian Statesman

Fact, Possibilities, Solution

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"President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves."

"President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true."

"In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true."

Simon Greenleaf, American Judge

Fact, May, Trials

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"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."

"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

Fact, Key, Scientists

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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."

"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."

Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist

Fact, Mankind, Necessity, Occupation

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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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"I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet."

"I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet."

Frank Shorter, American Athlete

Fact, Feet, Light, Quick

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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Fact, Facts, Principles

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"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."

"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."

Jenny Agutter, English Actress

Fact, Film, Reading, Theatre

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"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."

"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."

Malcolm Forbes, American Publisher

Fact, Facts, Fiction, Old

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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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"We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great."

"We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great."

Andy Taylor, British Musician

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"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."

"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism."

"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism."

Ernest Mandel, Belgian Author

Fact, Facts, Marxism, Open, Past

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"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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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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"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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"Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed."

"Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed."

John Hull, American Economist

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"We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that."

"We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that."

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Statesman

Fact, Want, Weapons

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