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«I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.»
«It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Facts,
Science
| Keywords:
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«The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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idols, in point of fact, subordinate, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, terrifying, The Idols
«Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the sense of the untraceable. In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. They postula»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Science
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disprove, disproved, disproving, in point of fact, rob, sense of direction, untraceable
«My value is still so much higher than I ever expected it to be by a factor of about 50. So the fact that at one point it was say, a factor of 60, well -- that wealth is all going back to society anyway.»
«Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. -- Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.»
«Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
centre, dwells, humanism, hypotheses, hypothesis, in point of fact, perspective, philosophic, shifting, theorem, theorems
«Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
in point of fact, owing, Point of, point of view
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