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  • Claude Bernard A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
    Claude Bernard
    French physiologist (1813 - 1878)
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  • William S. Burroughs Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Novalis Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Basil Hume Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Gerda Lerner Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Denis Diderot It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Helen Keller My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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