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The fatal futility of Fact. -- Henry James
Fact is, perfection is boring. -- Robert Genn
Fact is richer than diction. -- J. L. Austin
Fact is stranger than fiction. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Fact is based upon vulgar matter. -- Charles Olson
Fact and fiction are different truths. -- Patricia MacLachlan
Fact creates norms, and truth illumination. -- Werner Herzog
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction. -- Francine Prose
Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology. -- Evan Osnos
Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth -- Thomas Hobbes
Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History . -- Thomas Hobbes
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact. -- Thomas Hobbes
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. -- Norman Mailer
Dont Abuse The Fact That Nobody Is Perfect For Your Over Imperfection. -- Cyc Jouzy
Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team. -- Jack Johnson
We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist -- Thomas Bernhard
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. -- Carter G. Woodson
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. -- Willa Cather
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. -- Marcus Aurelius
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. -- William S. Burroughs
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic. -- Bill Hicks
Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God. -- Kelly Rowland
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. -- E. L. Doctorow
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. -- David Bowie
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. -- Pope John Paul II
Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising. -- Howard Schultz
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. -- Russell Brand
I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride. -- David Bowie
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. -- Marlo Thomas
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway. -- Stephen Hawking
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. -- Roger Bacon
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
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. -- Christopher Hitchens
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. -- Roseanne Barr
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. -- Mark Hyman
For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them. -- John Ridley
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! -- Faith Hill
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. -- Nikola Tesla
Memory diffuses fact. -- Diane Sawyer
The fact that I -- Gustavo Perez Firmat
The fact speak for themselves. -- Demosthenes
I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer. -- Jim Crace
Belief creates the actual fact. -- William James
Solitude is the profoundest fact -- Octavio Paz
Dreams are a scientific fact. -- Robyn Hitchcock
In fact living is dying. -- Guy de Maupassant
Many stories magnify a fact. -- Toba Beta
I prefer fact to fiction. -- Richard Attenborough
A picture is a fact. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. -- Carol Alt
The fact is I'm very self-similar. -- John Hodgman
In fact, pro wrestling is strong. -- Kazushi Sakuraba
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction -- Carol Alt
So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe. -- Terry Pratchett
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing. -- Emma Bonino
Some people die accidentally. It's a fact. -- Sue Grafton
The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions. -- Justin Trudeau
Even a lie is a psychic fact. -- Carl Jung
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable. -- Dirk Benedict
Globalization is a fact of economic life -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
The damaged love the damaged. True fact. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. -- Isaac Asimov
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people. -- Edmund Husserl
Globalization is a fact of economic life. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Things always become obvious after the fact -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real. -- Mason Cooley
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. -- Michael Shermer
That lasting things do, in fact, last. -- David Levithan
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. -- Djuna Barnes
I'm comfortable with anything after the fact. -- George Saunders
Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact. -- Sophie Kinsella
It's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. -- Matthew McConaughey
A concept is stronger than a fact. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It's an important fact of life, war. -- Jeff Goldblum
All legends have a base in fact. -- David Gemmell
FACT!: I wanna live in a castle. -- Andrew VanWyngarden
Drawing is an idea more than fact. -- Jack Shadbolt
Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every fiction has its base in fact. -- Gayle Forman
A fact may blossom into a truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Don't fight a fact, deal with it. -- Hugh Prather
Beauty is an opinion not a fact -- Hayden Panettiere
All myths have a basis in fact -- Samaire Provost
In fact, the world needs more nerds. -- Ben Bernanke
The universe is in fact a multiverse. -- Claudia Gray
...fact takes no heed of human hopes. -- H. G. Wells
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. -- Rod McKuen
Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact. -- Bertrand Russell
The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact. -- Karl Ludwig von Knebel
Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body -- Julia Cameron
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer. -- Naomi Campbell
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. -- Tom Stoppard
My statements are just a statement of fact. -- Nancy Pelosi
Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference. -- William Hazlitt
Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. -- Amelia B. Edwards
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. -- Paulo Freire
The fact is certain because it is impossible. -- Tertullian
Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously -- Ruby Wax
Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. -- Peter Coyote
Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. -- Eoin Colfer
Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. -- Athol Fugard
The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend, -- Robert Wuhl
The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star." -- Kenneth Franklin
No amount of belief makes something a fact. -- James Randi
Lady' is an opinion; 'woman' is a fact. -- Martina Navratilova
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. -- Dick Cheney
Envy is the central fact of American life. -- Gore Vidal
I am in fact more than a dress. -- Justine Thornton
I know. In fact, I am never wrong. -- Oscar Wilde
A belief may be larger than a fact. -- Vannevar Bush
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged. -- Sinclair Lewis
So you have to accept facts as fact. -- Ai Yazawa

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