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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

~Alexander Alekhine

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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

~Alexander Chase

Topics: Air Air Travel Between Death Exhilarating Fact Find Hang Illusion Immortality Lovers Poised Travel

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I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Believe Fact He Himself Impress Justice Man Minds People People Say Rather Say Says Should Than Want Would You Your

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I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Dear Deeper Discovered Fact Far Feeling Friendship Her In Fact Interest Know Learned Love Mere Pupil Sincerely Than To Love Very I Have Learned

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Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Acquired Articulate Born Child Consequently Deaf Fact Hearing How Instruction Learns Medium Never

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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

~Alexander Hamilton

Topics: Been Believed Changing Determine Fact Generally God However Judge Maxim People Quoted Right Said Seldom True Turbulent Voice

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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

~Alexander Kluge

Topics: According Alexandria Alphabet Although Burnt Certain Continue Down Even Expressions Fact Letters Level Library Makes Modernity People Possible Sort Then Think Tradition I Think

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Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

~Alexander Mackendrick

Topics: Am American Blood Curious Fact In Fact Nationality Temperament Thing Very I Am

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I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Fact In Fact Just Like Look Love Make Mean Movies Much Very I Love

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

~Alexander Pope

Topics: Almost Continually Days Example Fact Fools In Fact Left Men Old Old Men Praise Some Themselves Think Time Were Would You Youth

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