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Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.
— Eric Bana
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who…
— Douglas Adams
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
— Iain Banks
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very…
— Douglas Adams
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I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad…
— Dave Barry
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Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it…
— Roseanne Barr
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If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at…
— Joey Adams
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm…
— Dave Barry
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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
— Dave Barry
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
— Dave Barry
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed…
— Frederic Bastiat
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal…
— Gary Bauer
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You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even…
— Scott Adams
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In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The…
— Scott Adams
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
— Martha Beck
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
— Joseph Addison
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I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be…
— James Van Der Beek
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
— Konrad Adenauer
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent…
— Robert Benchley
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The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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