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I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him;… — Sun Tzu
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. — Aristotle
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are… — Brigid Brophy
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I… — Erica Jong
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on… — Alton Brown
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to… — Thomas Jefferson
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the… — Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at… — Thomas Jefferson
Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it… — Meher Baba
Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact… — Watchman Nee
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential… — Richard Henry Lee
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with… — Malcolm Wallop
The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand… — Isaac Asimov
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is… — Karl Popper
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he… — Asa Gray
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus… — Arthur Koestler

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