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Definition of Fact
Fact

A doing, making, or preparing.

An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

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Fact Quotations

A picture is a fact.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Willa Cather

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Fact Translations

fact in Afrikaans is feit
fact in Danish is faktum
fact in Dutch is feit
fact in Finnish is tosiasia
fact in French is factum
fact in German is Tatsache, Tatsache, Faktum
fact in Norwegian is faktum, kjennsgjerning
fact in Portuguese is fato
fact in Spanish is hecho
fact in Swedish is faktum


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