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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Angela Merkel As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bo Burnham At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Henry James Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Rancic Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • William James Belief creates the actual fact.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William James Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • John Ruskin Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
    The seven lamps of architecture
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bono Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Lord George Byron But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Bob Balaban But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sagan But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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