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• It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Teaching, Men

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.221, Psychology Press

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• Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.

  Doris Lessing

  Overlooked

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5”, p.222, Vintage

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• In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about.

  Doris Lessing

  War, Past, People

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• Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.15, 谷月社

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• If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Training, May

  John Stuart Mill (2013). “Autobiography”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

  Randall Jarrell

  Voice, Age, Novelists

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.

  Karel Capek

  Spring, Flower, Autumn

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• Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Dream, Real, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.

  Otto Weininger

  Past, Men, Remembrance

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.114, Рипол Классик

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• The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, pp. 15 - 16, 2000.

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• While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

  Marianne Williamson

  Betrayal, Commitment, Self

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.157, Hay House, Inc

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• The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Lying, Epic

  Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”, Lulu.com

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• Oh, how we need to wake up to the fact that the Holy Spirit’s blessing and power is the key to everything.

  Jim Cymbala

  Blessing, Keys, Needs

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• I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.

  J. J. Abrams

  School, Mean, Age

  "Exclusive: J.J. Abrams Talks STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and That New Lightsaber" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 5, 2015.

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• If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

  Andy Andrews

  Differences, Made, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Jun 04, 2013

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• We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

  John Ruskin

  Pain, Men, People

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.34

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• What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Interesting, Becoming, Study

  Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter (2010). “The Light of Other Days”, p.206, Macmillan

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• I read that yesterday, the Mexican peso hit its lowest point since March of 2009. In fact, things got so bad, it was seen leaving a bar with the American dollar.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Money, Yesterday, Mexican

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• Hurricane Irene ... the storm was huge news. In fact, the Weather Channel reported something they haven't seen in years. Viewers.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Weather, Storm

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• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

  Hippocrates

  Art, Medicine, Fruit

  "Precepts". Book by Hippocrates, Ch. 2, as translated by W. H. S. Jones (1923),

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• It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.

  Will Smith

  Black, Doe, Different

  "Will Smith". "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies", 2001.

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• Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Phantoms, Loaded

  Collected in Essays and Soliloquies (translated by J E Crawford Flitch, 1925).

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• I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.

  Hank Aaron

  Years, Two, Long

  "Home Run King". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. September 10, 2013.

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• There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

  William Matthews

  Opposites, Faithful, Luck

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• Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.

  Chinua Achebe

  Simple, Thinking, White

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.26, Anchor

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