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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within… — George Eliot
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but… — Louisa May Alcott
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you… — Holly Lisle
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his… — Malcolm X
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible. — Abraham Lincoln
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's… — Mark Twain
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to… — George W. Bush
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun. — Richard Dawkins
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. — George Santayana
Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised… — Janet Morris
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow
You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you. — Deepak Chopra
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In… — Dalai Lama
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our… — M. Scott Peck
In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a… — David Beckham
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from… — John O'Donohue

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