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"A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free."

"A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free."

Nat Friedman, American Businessman

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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 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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"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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"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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"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."

Margaret Fuller, American Critic

Fact, Man, Radical, Woman

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"I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships."

"I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships."

Christina Applegate, American Actress

Fact, Relationships

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"I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion."

"I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

Fact, Guitar, Songs

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"In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there."

"In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

Fact, March, Theatre

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"The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup."

"The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup."

Lorrie Fair, American Athlete

Fact, Games, Skill, Tribute

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"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."

"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University."

"In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University."

Tony Randall, American Actor

Fact, University

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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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"My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits."

"My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits."

George Shearing, British Musician

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"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see."

"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see."

Joan Jett, American Musician

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"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."

"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

Fact, Now, Scotland, Sea

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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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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

Jean Genet, French Dramatist

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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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"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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"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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"So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle."

"So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle."

Howard Dean, American Politician

Fact, Rhetoric, Years

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"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."

"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

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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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"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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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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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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"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."

"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."

Talcott Parsons, American Sociologist

Fact, Facts, Interest, Problems, Solution

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"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

Elia Kazan, American Director

Fact, Facts, Mystery, Secrecy, Suspicion

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"I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive."

"I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive."

Adam Arkin, American Actor

Fact, Film, Pretty

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"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."

"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."

Harold Bloom, American Critic

Fact, Mind, Psychology, Shakespeare

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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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"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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"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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"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."

"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."

Stephen Breyer, American Judge

Fact, Facts, Independence, Law

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"Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed."

"Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed."

Terry Zwigoff, American Director

Fact, Film, First, Want

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"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."

"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."

R. Lee Ermey, American Soldier

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"As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse."

"As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse."

Jim Lehrer, American 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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"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Fact, Facts, Sense

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"When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise."

"When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise."

Charlie Haden, American Musician

Fact, First, Play

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy."

"There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy."

Louis Stokes, American Politician

Fact, Assassination, Information, Man

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"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."

"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

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