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  • Brande Roderick It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Junot Diaz Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • A. Philip Randolph Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Bill Buford Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Lucille Ball Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Bret Harte Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
    Captain Jims Friend.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Henry Miller Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Benny Green Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Ba Jin Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, Comrade, don't worry and you will recover. As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, You will die. I can be of no more help.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • James Joyce Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Alexander Chase Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Bill Buford Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Robert Collier Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream, but create!
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Martin Heidegger Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
    Martin Heidegger
    German philosopher (1889 - 1976)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Brad Holland Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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