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  • Bill James The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bill Irwin The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles A. Garfield The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Jay Chapman The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Leo Buscaglia The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Boris Sidis The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
    Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Carl Sagan The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Allen Ginsberg The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • William Allen White The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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