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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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

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Tell the truth and not the facts.

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We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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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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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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No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

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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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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

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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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If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

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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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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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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