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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
Have nothing to do with coaches. In fact, if you should see one coming, go and hide behind the pavilion until he goes away.
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.
I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.
Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.
The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing.
Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.
Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.
Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.
Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.
I'm a really spiritual person and I've never experienced anything. In fact I'm thinking of taking this ghost tour in Philly.
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
Every moment allows your the opportunity to take a deep breath in and be grateful for the fact that you can take in a breath.
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.
As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm at now equally important.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.