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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A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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There’s more to life than just London,’ said Nightingale. ‘People keep saying that,’ I said. ‘But I’ve never actually seen any proof.
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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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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.
