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I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

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.

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change, but of the renewed life of the body and of the general judgment day.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.