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• The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, People, Nuclear

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Athlete, Fighting

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

  Tim Scott

  Thinking, Government, Matter

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about her first rock show, but it's nothing like that - she gives me a tampon. It's a true testament to how the majority of our fan base - and I say this in the most respectful and best way I can - they're little freaks.

  Lzzy Hale

  Rocks, Years, Adorable

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Past, Trying, Would Be

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• I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

  Burton Silverman

  Two, People, Magic

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• I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should you. In fact, that's the point. I believe that a young woman's decision to have sex, or not, shouldn't impact how she's seen as a moral actor.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

  Dennis Lindley

  Talking, Law, Doe

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", p. 19), 2006.

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• The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

  Nicholas Eberstadt

  Character, Needs, Fundamentals

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• Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

  Heinz Fischer

  Climate, Cost, Damage

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• Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Democracy, Phrases

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• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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