#fact

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride. ↗

— Richard Widmark

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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cost #cover #divorced #economics #economists

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected. ↗

— Emma Willard

#boarding #boarding school #conversation #daughter #expected

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated. ↗

— Paul Williams

#am #being #checkmate #defeated #fact

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#century #class #cotton #created #frame

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. ↗

— Patrick White

#enjoyed #especially #every #fact #french

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#birthday #box #childhood #cracker #ever

In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#booked #fact #go #in fact #march

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#behavior #course #due #evident #factor

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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