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  • Carl Safina Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ezra Pound Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bob Balaban Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. That fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bertrand Russell Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • C. S. Lewis Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Nikki Giovanni Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Parr More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Uta Hagen More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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  • Robert Benchley Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bertrand Russell Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Branford Marsalis My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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