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There are good reasons for doing this now, because of the change to technology, the fact that we will have to pay for biometric passports and the ID card part of it is a very small additional cost [on introducing ID cards]
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By depriving the charged person of any defenses means that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterise it.
View quotes by Robert Bork

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
View quotes by Adlai E Stevenson

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson

I'm sure the fact that John Prescott has ordered the building of 991 new homes will be a great comfort to Britain's 100,000 homeless families, let alone the 500,000 living in overcrowded housing.
View quotes by Sarah Teather

The mere fact of an undiscovered restaurant, in a city where gourmands travel in ravening packs, creates an excitement unrelated to the quality of the cuisine.
View quotes by Lawrence Van Gelder

Companies have to be wary of the fact that staff don't move on too quickly these days else the requisite knowledge base required to manage enough elements may be lost.
View quotes by Howard Gardner

I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed. [The Cement Garden]
View quotes by Ian McEwan

Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
View quotes by Heywood Broun

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact
View quotes by Julie Burchill

The Argentine Tango felt very natural from the moment we started to learn it. You dance it for your own personal pleasure as opposed to the audience and I love the fact that it's non-showy
View quotes by Flavia Cacace

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it (Attributed to Voltaire, but the words are in fact S.G. Tallentyre's summary of his attitude to Helvetius following the burning of the latter's De l'esprit in 1759)
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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
View quotes by Anatol Rapoport

My chances of playing have increased by the injuries and the fact they aren't taking another bowler, but I don't want to get too big for my boots - if I get picked it's going to be a massive bonus but if I'm just part of the squad then that will be equally good
View quotes by Liam Plunkett

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
View quotes by Henry Miller

I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
View quotes by Septima Clark

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
View quotes by Steve Case

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
View quotes by James Truslow Adams

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
View quotes by George Carlin

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