Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.Hilary Mantel
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
Samuel Chase -
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.
Karl A. Menninger -
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter -
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
Talcott Parsons -
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
Imre Lakatos -
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
Felix Adler -
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
Iain McGilchrist -
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
Yair Lapid -
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Frances Wright -
I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.
Andrew Solomon
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball -
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.
Keith Haring -
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
Nan Goldin -
The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.
Mark Levin -
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
E. L. Konigsburg
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People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.
Angelina Jolie -
We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
Don McLean -
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.
Epictetus -
The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!
Epes Sargent -
The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.
Hilary Mantel