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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
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The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
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The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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