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“When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

Men Different Facts Pain Arise Unhappiness Distraction Peril Chamber

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and is based on. A fundamental determines the shape of what arises from it, much as a foundation of a house dictates its layout. A basic is how you introduce people you are teaching to the system. It is a beginning concept, often simplified to assist learning. If a fundamental is the foundation, a basic is the front door to enter the system.”

People Ifs Ideas Facts House Doors Teaching Fronts Shapes Concepts Foundation Fundamentals Determine Arise Introducing Introduction Premises Front Doors Layout

Author:Marc MacYoung

“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”

Facts Science Results Errors Absence Arise Data Reasoning

Book:On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged

Source: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged

“It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.”

Thinking Facts Desire Fall Evil Force Views Quality Situation Sacrifice Spring Ideals Pressure Endure Absence Arise Realistic Disagreeable

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.”

Thinking Facts Courses Voice Clear Deserve Sentences Arise Professors Knights Muddle Camelot

Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.”

May Mean Facts Happens Order Evil Habit Arise Providence Consolation

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.”

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Book:Meister Eckhart's Sermons

Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons

“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”

Wells May Facts Language Cases Arise Description Diction

Author:J. L. Austin