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• Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

  Georg Baselitz

  Past, Paint, Gender

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.

  Max Beckmann

  Reality, Bridges, Ideas

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• I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and more I purge myself of the stuff that had my focus so turned away from God, the more I shred myself, the more I have a greater connection to God. And what I know now that I didn't know then is that's why I'm here.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Focus, Sound, Connections

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• It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Civilization, Needs

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• Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

  Anthony Caro

  Space, Important, Sculpture

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• Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

  Ekaterina Gordeeva

  Family, Simple, Important

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• True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Effort, Mind, Naked

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• I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact some of them are rather slow. This is not a bad thing; they are slow because they think deeply and carefully about mathematics.

  Jo Boaler

  Thinking, Numbers, Mathematics

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• The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.

  Alan Abelson

  Healthy, Boots, World

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• Facts are God’s native tongue.

  Michael Dowd

  Tongue, Native

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.88, Penguin

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• FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy!

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Doing What You Love, Making Money, Economy

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• I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Couple, Hate, Ocean

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• It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Numbers, He Man

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• To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Errors, Data, World

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• I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

  Ouida

  Age

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Discovery, Historical, Reliability

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• There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Writing, Names

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• Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

  J. William Schopf

  Needs, Evolution, Given

  "Scientists discover organism that hasn’t evolved in more than 2 billion years" by Stuart Wolpert, newsroom.ucla.edu. February 2, 2015.

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• We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

  Ahad Ha'am

  War, Preparation, Needs

  "Wrestling with Zion" by Ahad Ha'am,

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• One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

  Harry S. Truman

  Rewards, Institutions, Difficulty

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.166, University of Missouri Press

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• First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Reality, Thinking

  "Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

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• Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Thinking, Knights, Voice

  "Essays in Disguise" by Wilfrid Sheed, Knopf, (p. 156), 1990.

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• One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Flames, Soul

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.359, Wordsworth Editions

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• Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Waiting, Psychological, Individual

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter I: "The Coming Of The Masses", 1929.

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