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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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Facts speak plainer than words

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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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In fact, I am never wrong.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

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