Quotes with fact-checking

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  • Bill Mumy Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bliss Carman What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Nelson Mandela What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
    Speech 18 may 2002
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • William James What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Bailyn What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Archibald Macleish What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Michelangelo What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Anita Hill What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Anna Held Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Brett Ratner When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Blake McIver Ewing When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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