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• Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Thinking, Logic, Figures

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• The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out.

  Pat Condell

  Long, Hatred, Catholic

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Let's Blame The Jews", www.youtube.com. May 26, 2011.

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• The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda is that which is not recognized as propaganda. Because we think advertising is silly and trivial, we are less on guard, less critical, than we might otherwise be. It's all in fun, it's ridiculous. While we're laughing, sometimes sneering, the commercial does its work.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Fun, Silly, Thinking

  Jean Kilbourne (2012). “Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

  Michael Moorcock

  Problem, Solutions

  "The Eternal Champion". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

  Kobo Abe

  People, Police, Fiction

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• Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.

  Antonio Negri

  Expression, Essence, Numbers

  Antonio Negri (1999). “Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State”, p.345, U of Minnesota Press

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• Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.

  Hersh Shefrin

  Past, Reality, People

  Hersh Shefrin (2000). “Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing”, p.110, Oxford University Press

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• If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.

  Bentley Little

  Mean, Fans, Mystery

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• Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person's relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what we do for a living, is often one of the first pieces of information we give to others about ourselves. It's so important, in fact, that most married people wear a symbol of their marriage on their hand.

  Evan Wolfson

  Hands, People, Giving

  Evan Wolfson (2007). “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Important, Littles, Minorities

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 1), 1952.

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• In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but between the rate of change of inflation and the rate of change of unemployment.

  Paul Ormerod

  Unemployment, Levels, Economy

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Doubt, Interpretation, Observation

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts of observation and experiment, without reference to any hypothesis as to the occult molecular operations with which the sensible phenomena may be conceived to be connected; and that course will be followed in the body of the present treatise. But, in giving a brief historical sketch of the progress of thermodynamics, the progress of the hypothesis of thermic molecular motions cannot be wholly separated from that of the purely inductive theory.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Independent, Law, Giving

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.28

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• The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.

  Leo Strauss

  Philosophy, Character, Movement

  Leo Strauss (1985). “Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy”, p.186, University of Chicago Press

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• What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Law, Liberty, Natural

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Liberty, Corruption, Conspiracy

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

  John Mearsheimer

  Way, Ruthless, Dangerous

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

  Katie Melua

  Reality, Thinking, Musical Genius

  "Katie Melua: I want to start afresh". The Telegraph, September 15, 2007.

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• In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  Francis Schaeffer (2013). “He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.4, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

  Jean Gebser

  Condescension And, Sentimental, Harmony

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Past, Men

  "The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

  William James

  Mother, Lying, Mystical Experiences

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• The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Unity, Migration

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Eye, Self

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• Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

  Alan Arkin

  Strange Places, Class, Two

  "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

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