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The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

- John Warnock

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

- Niels Bohr

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

- William Joyce

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

- Gerhard Schroeder

But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.

- Roger Clemens

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

- Johnny Rivers

Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

- Terry Zwigoff

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

- Denis Johnson

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

- Sigmund Freud

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

- John Frankenheimer

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.

- Lee Ann Womack

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

- Hannah Arendt

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

- Chick Corea

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

- Matthew Simpson

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

- Nat Friedman

In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.

- Niklas Zennstrom

I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.

- Hjalmar Branting

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

- Robert Fripp