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In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.
While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.
The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.
The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.
Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.
we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.
That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

fact and joked
The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters ' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called " Screen Door ".
Similarities have been noted between the character and Evans ' work habits, mannerisms, quirks, clothing style, hairstyle, and large, square-framed eyeglasses ; in fact, the real Evans is said to have joked, " I'm magnificent in this film.
Although the Scooby Gang later joked that he wore tweed diapers as a child, Giles was in fact a rebellious youth, rejecting his responsibility as a Watcher and dropping out of Oxford University, where he was studying history, when he was twenty-one.
Guareschi always joked about the fact that he, a large man, was baptized Giovannino, a name meaning " little John " or " Johnny ".
Adams was not excited about joining the Senate upon being asked by Allmand-in fact, he joked that he did not even know what the Senate was, asking the Minister, " What's the Senate?
The band, in fact, named themselves after a brand of facial tissue they had noticed in a hotel room ( they joked that they could have turned out to be the Kleenex Brothers ).
On his return to union in 1996 it was sometimes joked that he was the fastest prop in world rugby, though in fact he was an inside centre.
The Sklars ' opening segment joked on the fact that they had removed the audience and acknowledged complaints from the fans.

fact and about
In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.
The New York mind is two parts abstraction and one part misinformation about the rest of the country and in fact the world.
He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations' not doing this -- but nothing happened.
that is, one must know something about D other than the fact that it is a linear operator.
As a matter of fact, the incorrect classification, the result of many weeks of labor by Dr. Hilprecht, was about to be published by him the following day.
In fact, there is much evidence to indicate they don't care a bit about anything beyond their particular regional, ethnic and occupational limits.
Everyone somehow manages to overlook completely the fact that, as far as we know, there were exactly two people in and about the house at the time of both murders: Lizzie Borden and Bridget Sullivan.
As a matter of fact, Albert S. Flint expressed his conviction that `` her physical strength, her mental power, her lively interest in all objects about her and her readiness to serve her fellow beings '' would have led her `` to a distinguished career amongst the noted women of this country ''.
) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.
and in the fact that she bases her decisions about work, college, carreer, and studies on what others are doing, rather than on her own sense of identity with given skills, abilities, likes, and dislikes.
Whatever projection one makes, the striking fact about congregational and parochial life is the extent to which it is a vehicle of the social identity of middle-class people.
In fact, he did not think about Jerry Burton at all until he entered his living room and closed the door behind him.
The heightened tension, in fact, had been a major factor in the President's change of view about the urgency of a meeting with the Soviet leader.
There is however no point in speculating about such a possibility: the fact of the matter is that our institutions of higher learning owe their existence to a spirit not unlike that which produces the `` family business ''.
Pitchers grumble about lively balls and lively bats, the shrinking strike zone, and the fact that the knock-down pitch is now illegal.
Well, most of our fears may be unfounded, but after you discover that fact, you have something else to worry about: Why then do we have these fears??
We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.
Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.
Morals aside, the fat man has plenty to worry about -- over and above the fact that no one any longer loves him.
" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".
In fact, because of atmospheric refraction and because the sun appears as a disk and not a point, part of the midnight sun may be seen on the night of the northern summer solstice up to about 50 ′ () south of the Arctic Circle ; similarly, on the day of the northern winter solstice, part of the sun may be seen up to about 50 ′ north of the Arctic Circle.

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