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What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.57, Harvard University Press

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

"Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

"The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Aristotle, Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (2012). “Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Alessandro Manzoni (1951). “The betrothed (I promessi sposi): a tale of XVII century Milan”

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.3, Vintage