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I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. Peter McWilliams
Jim McMahon quote: "I am normal. In fact, I think I might be more normal than..."
I am normal. In fact, I think I might be more normal than anyone else. Jim McMahon
I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together. Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan quote: "Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure..."
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. Sarah McLachlan
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. Hypatia
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. Mark Hyman
Thomas Huxley quote: "Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful..."
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley quote: "The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful..."
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. Thomas Huxley
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Aldous Huxley
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley
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. Victor Hugo
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country. Seth Graham-Smith
When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets. Thom Gunn
I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care. Alma Guillermoprieto

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