Quotes with fact-checking

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  • Antonin Artaud When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Louise Erdrich When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Carole Bouquet When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Len Evans You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
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  • Bryan Robson You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Bernardine Dohrn You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Learned Hand You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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  • Ben Folds You have made me smile again
    In fact, I might be sore from it.
    It's been a while
    I know we've been together many times before
    I'll see you on the other side.
    Lyrics Dont Change Your Plans, The Unauthorized Biography
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Camille Paglia You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Lennon You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Emmeline Pankhurst You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.
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  • Ba Jin You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Michael Korda Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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