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• I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Decision, Psychology, Minorities

  "Habermas and the Public Sphere". Book by Craig Calhoun, 1993.

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• However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

  Mike Huckabee

  Stupid, Doe, May

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• So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.

  David Icke

  Years, Research, Planets

  Interview with Rick Martin for Spectrum Newspaper, www.whale.to. August 3, 1999.

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• We/I am a son/daughter of God. In fact, we are all expressions/projections of the Infinite Conciousness, which is love, that is what I mean when I say "I am a son of god "GOD"!"

  David Icke

  Daughter, Mean, Son

  Interview with Terry Wogan on talk show "Wogan", 1991.

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• Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

  David Icke

  People, Different, Today

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

  Alan Keyes

  Strong, Character, Roots

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

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• The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

  Alan Keyes

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Doing Nothing

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...

  Alan Keyes

  Sex, Thinking, Order

  Alan Keyes' National Federation of Republican Assemblies Speech, www.keyesarchives.com. August 31, 2004.

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• A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

  Charles Kettering

  Simple, Prejudice, Opinion

  "Dynamic Work Simplification" by W. Clements Zinck, (p. 122), 1971.

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• Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

  Paul Krugman

  Country, Unique, Reality

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• The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.

  Paul Krugman

  Taken, Successful, Past

  "Enemies of the WTO", Slate Magazine, November 24, 1999.

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• We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn’t the fact that they were primitive — the Bronze Age was primitive, too. What made the Dark Ages dark was the fact that so much knowledge had been lost, that so much known to the Greeks and Romans had been forgotten by the barbarian kingdoms that followed.

  Paul Krugman

  Dark, Greek, Age

  "A Dark Age of macroeconomics (wonkish)" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. January 27, 2009.

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• I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.

  Paul Krugman

  Strong, America, Issues

  "The Curious Politics of Immigration" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

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• I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.

  Saul Kripke

  Choices, Gaps, Language

  "Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers". Book by Saul Kripke, 2011.

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• To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Technology, Men, Thinking

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.73, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

  Michael Lewis

  Strange, True Fact, Folly

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.

  Michael Lewis

  Beautiful, Summer, Fall

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

  Frank Loesser

  Girl, Brother, Women

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• I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

  Evo Morales

  America, World, Force

  Evo Morales' remarks at the press conference during his first visit to Cuba, December 2005.

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• Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.

  John McCain

  Believe, Doe, Way

  "Iraqis See a Candidate’s Agenda in McCain’s Visit" by Richard A. Oppel, Jr. Michael Luo, www.nytimes.com. March 17, 2008.

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• When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.

  Kristi Noem

  Needs, Looks, Addresses

  "Rep. Noem: Senate Budget Proposals ‘Ridiculous’". Fox News Interview, www.newsmax.com. March 11, 2011.

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• I think especially in such an unstable economic environment, what people criticized him [Mitt Romney] for in 2008 his consistency, the fact that he was so strong, and I think people will find that appealing going into the 2012. That’s one of the things that I like about him — because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  "O'Donnell: I Like Mitt's Flip". CNN Interview, www.politico.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

  Conor Oberst

  Gossip, Soul, Faces

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• But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

  Franz von Papen

  People, Stressed, Cinema

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 30, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.

  John Pilger

  Believe, Government, Use

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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