George Scratchley Brown Quotes
For falsification to constitute an offence there must be proof of "intent to deceive." This is a legally prescribed element of the offence and is negated when the report is submitted in conformity with orders from a higher authority in possession of the true facts.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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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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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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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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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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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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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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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
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A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.
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I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.
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If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.
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The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the typical facts of the resurrection of the body; not only of the glorious change, but of the renewed life of the body and of the general judgment day.
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Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
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Things keep their secrets.
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For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.
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For falsification to constitute an offence there must be proof of "intent to deceive." This is a legally prescribed element of the offence and is negated when the report is submitted in conformity with orders from a higher authority in possession of the true facts.
