William Golding Quotes
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
Quotes to Explore
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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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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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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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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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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We must be still before God.
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I'm ready, ... It was a little bit of a scare and a rocky summer, but the time to take stuff for granted is over. There's some relief but the journey's not over. I've got to live up to the trade and the expectations.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
