Facts Quotes
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I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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We're going to let the facts go where they go
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the 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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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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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 obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
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We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.
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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.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
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Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.
