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• Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Differences, Giving, Choices

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.140, David C Cook

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• As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Winning, Years

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• I don't care who wins, I'll fight either one of them. As a matter of fact, I'll fight them both on the same night if they want.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Fighting, Night

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• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Sports, Failure, Learning

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• It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

  George Andrew Olah

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Years

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• I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.

  Brian Lamb

  Hbo, Air, Matter

  "Lamb looks back on C-SPAN" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 22, 2012.

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• You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Devil, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.119, Routledge

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• If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Facts, Matter, Made

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

  Romain Gary

  World, Matter, Facts

  Romain Gary (1968). “The Dance of Genghis Cohn”, New American Library of Canada

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• As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, School, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Mind, Matter

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• Here's good news: George W. Bush says that he is committed to fighting global warming. Yeah, well, he nipped that in the bud, didn't he? ... President Bush says he's really going to buckle down now and fight global warming. As a matter of fact, he announced today he's sending 20,000 troops to the sun

  David Letterman

  Fighting, President, Matter

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• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Kings, Responsibility, Clothes

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

  John McCain

  Political, Negative, Campaigns

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent.

  Tom Coburn

  Interesting, Divergent, Matter

  "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Mindfulness

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• No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

  Elie Abel

  Matter, Telephones, Facts

  Elie Abel (1968). “The Missile Crisis”

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• To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

  Debi Mazar

  Husband, Italian, Variation

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Matter, Another Day, Facts

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “City”, p.173, Open Road Media

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• I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).

  Weegee

  Photography, Giving, Inspire

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• Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

  David Hume

  Truth, Passion, Ideas

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2007). “A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition”, p.24, Oxford University Press

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• A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict with science and history. For Christians, a test of this is the Empty Tomb. I ask Christians: 'are you saying that it does not matter - as a matter of fact - whether or not Christ's tomb was empty and that he was resurrected?' At that point, I find that, to a lot of them, it really does matter, despite all the fine talk about not wanting to confuse science and history with religion.

  Julian Baggini

  Christian, Religious, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made the Internet, the whole concept of cyberspace, vulnerable to rampant censorship - he pushed that bill, and I know the man in the Justice Department whom he persuaded - the guy didn't want to lose his job - to write the bill.

  Nat Hentoff

  Jobs, Communication, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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