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I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college. — Winston Churchill
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan
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
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. — George Santayana
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
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. — Thomas A. Edison
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
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. — 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

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