Quotes with fact-checking

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  • Carl Gustav Jung It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale It is a fact that you project what you are.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Angela Merkel It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of an abundance or surplus arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • W. H. Auden It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Josh Billings It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Thomas Mann It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Albert Camus It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John F. Kennedy It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Gore Vidal It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • C. P. Snow It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
    Public Affairs (1971)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Gore Vidal It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Wolfe It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ben Shapiro It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Barbara Walters It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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