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«To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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World
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as a matter of fact, blunder, fantasy, fantasy world, real world, The Real World
«To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ancient, ancient people, ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, as a matter of fact, authorities, century, conception, consulting, existed, hardly, observation, obvious, seventeenth, seventeenth century
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses
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