| Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. -- Oscar Wilde |
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Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. -- Mark Twain |
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Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. -- Linus Pauling |
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Pauling, LinusEra:
1901 |
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| When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. -- Victor Hugo |
| Author:
Hugo, VictorEra:
1802 |
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| The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencken |
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Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. -- Abraham Lincoln |
| Author:
Lincoln, AbrahamEra:
1809 |
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| You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. -- Cleveland Amory |
| Author:
Amory, ClevelandEra:
1907 |
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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. -- John Weiss |
| Author:
Weiss, JohnEra:
1818 |
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| What is thought? It is not Matter, nor Spirit. It is not a Thing; but a Power and Force. I make upon a paper certain conventional marks, that represent that Thought. There is no Power or Virtue in the marks I write, but only in the Thought which they tell to others. I die, but the Thought still lives. It is a Power. The fact that Thought continues to exist an instant, after it makes its appearance in the soul, proves it immortal: for there is nothing conceivable that can destroy it. The spoken words, being mere sounds, may vanish into thin air, and the written ones,mere marks, be burned, erased, destroyed: but the THOUGHT itself lives still, and must live on forever. -- Albert Pike |
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Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. -- Winston Churchill |
| Author:
Churchill, WinstonEra:
1874 |
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| A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane |
| Author:
Crane, StephenEra:
1871 |
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| A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland |
| Author:
Cleveland, GroverEra:
1837 |
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| All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, GeorgeEra:
1819 |
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| One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. -- Alfred North Whitehead |
| Author:
Whitehead, Alfred NorthEra:
1861 |
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| The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis |
| Author:
Lewis, SinclairEra:
1885 |
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