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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. ...
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
-- Ambrose Bierce...
The fact that it works is immaterial. -- L. Ogbo
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creature
but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot....
The fact that not everyone is perfect can be most clearly illustrated by other people.
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.
-- Saul Alinsky...
The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity.
Sooner or later someone wi...
The faculty expands its activity to fit whatever space is available, so that more space is always required.
-- Thomas L. Marti...
The fairest garden in her looks, And in her mind the wisest books.
-- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- The Garden, i...

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