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I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is… — Maya Angelou
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat.… — Maya Angelou
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love. — Wes Fesler
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only… — Howard Zinn
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will… — Muhammad Yunus
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old. — Nora Ephron
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has… — Daniel Ellsberg
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. — Edith Widder
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly… — Robert Ballard
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than… — Erwin Schrodinger
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in… — Aristotle
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was… — Norman Mailer
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms. — Richard Henry Lee
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college. — Winston Churchill
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as… — Eric Hoffer
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find… — Cesar Chavez
This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We… — Cesar Chavez
Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do! — Groucho Marx
But as importantly, it lies in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say,… — George W. Bush

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