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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.

  Winston Churchill

  Ocean, Army, Air

  "War Situation". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. August 2, 1944.

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• Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Law, Names

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1834.

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• The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Sorrow, Colour

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• We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Bored, Care

  "Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society". Book by John W. Gardner, 1964.

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• If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enough, Method, Ifs

  The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism Book Two Chapter I (p. 37)

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• The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Christianity, Myth

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.

  James Anthony Froude

  Writing, Adventure, Mean

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.2

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• Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Eye, Men

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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• The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Puppets, Corporations, Servant

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 9, p. 258, 1977.

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• Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Priorities, May

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.106, Princeton University Press

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• Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Air, Railroads, Lines

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.123, Princeton University Press

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• Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Organization

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.121, Princeton University Press

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• The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Government, Years

  Letter to former Virginia governor John Letcher on August 28, 1865. "Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee" by John William Jones, p. 203, 1874.

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• I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Men, Civilization, Self

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (1999). “The Mute's soliloquy: a memoir”, Hyperion Books

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