Quotes with fact-checking

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  • William Mcgovern The fact that it had never been done before made it even more irresistible.
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  • E. M. Cioran The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • A. N. Wilson The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Mark Twain The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Boris Sidis The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Beau Willimon The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Cat Stevens The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Barney Frank The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Allen Ginsberg The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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