Erwin Rommel Quotes
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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He believes what he says, and that's what is important. People have gotten into trouble because they were intentionally misstating what they knew.
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Children are happy because they don't have all the "facts" yet.
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It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.
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Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
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The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
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What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
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Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
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This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.
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A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.
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Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts.
