I Quotes
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“In fact, the place where we have indicted more terrorists or potential terrorists, is our Northern border.”
“In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.”
“In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.”
Source: Architecture: Choice Or Fate
“In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.”
“In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.”
“In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.”
“In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.”
“In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.”
“In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .”
Source: Pigman with Related Reading
“In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.”
“In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.”
Source: Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts
“In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.”
“In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.”
“In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would say, though, is that some X-event is not only plausible, but very likely in a time scale of a few years.”
“In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?”
“In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.”
“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche
“In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.”
Source: Babbitt
“In fact, the world needs more nerds.”
“In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.”
“In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.”
“In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.”
“In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.”
“In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.”
“In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the virtues, Destroyer of vice, Liberator of souls, Guide to true happiness, she is called Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman.”
“In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.”
“In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.”
“In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.”
“In fact, there's no way that banks can be paid everything that they're owed.”
“In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.”
“In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.”
“In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.”
“In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.”
“In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.”
“In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again.”
“In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you're hungry.”
“In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are bringing demands for a war crimes trial for the crime of aggression. However, though the invasion of Iraq was plainly an act of aggression, it doesn't break any records.”
“In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.”
Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people are looking for and what they disagree with.”
“In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.”
“In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].”
“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.”
“In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.”
“In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.”
“In fact, we tend to think things have been getting much worse. In fact, over the last 50 years, almost everything in the world on a global scale has got better. And the way that Hans [ Rosling] did this - it was very good.”