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"We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common."

"We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common."

Juliette G. Low, American Founder

Fact, Ideals, Will, World

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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

28

"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

28

"To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them."

"To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them."

Francis Parker Yockey, American Writer

Fact, Facts, Illness, Talk

28

"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

"I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid."

Katey Sagal, American Athlete

Fact, Growingup, Self

28

"The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast."

"The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast."

Richard O'Brien, English Actor

28

"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."

"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."

Lee Iacocca, American Businessman

Fact, Facts, Regret

28

"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

28

"The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed."

"The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed."

Stephen Cambone, American Politician

Fact, Harm, Reason, Security

28

"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."

"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

28

"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

28

"In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made."

"In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made."

Gene Siskel, American Critic

28

"But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live."

"But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live."

Wendell Willkie, American Lawyer

28

"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."

"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."

Frances Wright, Scottish Writer

28

"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."

"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Politician

Fact, Facts, Order

28

"The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing."

"The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing."

Emma Bonino, Italian Politician

28

"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

28

"The facts are on our side."

"The facts are on our side."

Karen Hughes, American Politician

28

"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."

"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish Journalist

28

"In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles."

"In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles."

Keith David, American Actor

28

"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."

"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

28

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

Fact, Facts, Opinions, Question

28

"As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers."

"As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers."

Sydney Schanberg, American Journalist

28

"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

28

"Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place."

"Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place."

Eric Clapton, British Musician

Fact, First, Loss, Obscurity

28

"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

27

"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

27

"All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background."

"All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background."

Bobby Vinton, American Musician

Fact, Singing, Songs

27

"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

27

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

27

"You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts."

"You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts."

Chevy Chase, American Comedian

Fact, Facts, May

27

"I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general."

"I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general."

Bob Kane, American Artist

Fact, Public, Writer

27

"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

27

"We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do."

"We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do."

Joan Blades, American Businessman

27

"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

27

"As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself."

"As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself."

Frank Langella, American Actor

27

"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."

"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."

Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress

27

"It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years."

"It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years."

George Andrew Olah, American Scientist

Fact, Research, Responsibility, Years

27

"The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable."

"The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable."

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

Fact, Force, Nothing

27

"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

27

"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."

"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

Fact, Sense, Shakespeare, Will

27

"That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim."

"That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

27

"The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke."

"The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke."

Kelly Lynch, American Actress

27

"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."

"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."

Claudio Hummes, Brazilian Cardinal

27

"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

27

"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

27

"Attitudes are more important than facts."

"Attitudes are more important than facts."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

27

"There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on."

"There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on."

Steve Case, American Businessman

Fact, Help, Road

27

"In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually."

"In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually."

Jim Ryun, American Athlete

27

"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."

"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."

J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

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