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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

Truth, Opinion, Hear

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Life, Help, Living

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Knowledge, Spiritual

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

Strange, Talking, Adult

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Tony Robbins

Real, Decision, Action

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Fear, Opinion

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller

Work, May, Makes

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis

Nature, Miracles, Break

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Today

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Character, Struggle

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Place, Knows

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama

Leadership, Failure, Today

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates

Ignorance, Nothing, Except

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Secure

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain

Gay, Proud, Started

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Belief, Actual, Creates

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius

Men, Ability, Superior

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

Life, Family, Great

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Getting, Themselves

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John Lennon

Earth, Biggest, Bastards

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two, Cause, Effect

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual, Natural, Symbol

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Before, Actually

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, Passion

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Ability, Conscious

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success, Attitude, Failure

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Barbara Bush

Success, Family, Important

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
Marilyn Monroe

Almost, Seems, Popularity

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