Facts Quotes - Page 25

• Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.

  Rashad Evans

  Running, Fighting, Hard Times

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• The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Excuse You, Ideas, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Frustration, White, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Home, Long, Neighborhood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.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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• Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.

  Ian Mckellen

  Inspiration, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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 love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

  Burton Silverman

  Art, People, World

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• Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.

  William O'Neil

  Thinking, Personal Opinions, Tv Shows

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• There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them.

  Frank Turek

  Atheist, Died

  Frank Turek (2014). “Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case”, p.143, NavPress

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• The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.

  Dave Rowntree

  Law, People, Goes On

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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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• It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, Yesterday, Essentials

  Doug Jenness, Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Ernest Mandel, Socialist Workers Party. National Education Dept (1985). “Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Two, Historical, Different

  "The Development of Capitalism in Russia". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter VIII: "The Formation of the Home Market", www.marxists.org. 1899.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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