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• I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, Care

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies to people of color. Some people have a mistaken view of it in America. It also is with respect to women, it's with respect to other efforts to try to reach out and be inclusive in our country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Views, Color

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate III (3)". www.cbsnews.com. October 13, 2004.

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• The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well.

  Stephen Schneider

  Looks, Stories, Wells

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• Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't have to hide the fact that I'm manic-depressive. You can tell people that's who I am. It's - explains a lot about your situation.

  Maya Forbes

  Father, Who I Am, People

  "'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

  Steve Blank

  Mistake, Believe, Optimism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy.

  Steve Blank

  Reality, Ideas, Healthy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

  Meryl Streep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

  Alva Noe

  Thinking, World, Consciousness

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world.

  Alva Noe

  People, World, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Careers, Transition

  "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". Book by Douglas Adams, 1988.

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• For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Way, Salvation

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• The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies.

  Auguste Comte

  Moving, Mean, Order

  Auguste Comte (1853). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.138

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• The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.

  Jackson Pollock

  Country, Independent, Ideas

  Jackson Pollock (1958). “Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956”

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• Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Successful, Law, Issues

  Hans Joachim Morgenthau (1993). “Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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• In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.

  Edward Kennedy

  Growth, Giants, Citizens

  Speech before American Bar Association, New York (August 8, 1978), reported in "What They Said in 1978" by Alan F. Pater, Jason R. Pate, (p. 168), 1979.

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• I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Rooms, Littles

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Century, Fascism, Manifestation

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

  Martin Gardner

  Children, Reading, Hunting

  "The Annotated Snark". Book by Martin Gardner, 1962.

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• While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Writing, Done, Problem

  "The Quark and the Jaguar". Book by Murray Gell-Mann, 1994.

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• Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

  Sue Grafton

  Jobs, Trying, Sometimes

  ""K" Is for Killer". Book by Sue Grafton, 1994.

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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Men, Primitive Man, Drawing

  Studio International 171, p. 280, June 1966.

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• Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

  David Hilbert

  Understanding, Consistency, Intuition

  "Grundlagen der Mathematik". Book by David Hilbert, 1927.

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• The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  "The Beautiful in Music: A Contribution to the Revisal of Musical Aesthetics". Book by Eduard Hanslick, 1854.

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• Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

  Ian Hacking

  Statistics, Systematic, Study

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.126, Cambridge University Press

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