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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.

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The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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

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Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

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In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

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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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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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

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