Facts Quotes
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
Willa Cather
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The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.
Brian Tracy
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He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
Claudius Claudianus
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Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
Alexander von Humboldt
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I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.
Scott Ritter
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Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.
N. T. Wright
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Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Keith Haring
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The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
Michael Moorcock
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
Willa Cather
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I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
Carter G. Woodson
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I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.
William John Wills
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What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.
William S. Burroughs
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He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.
Mortimer Zuckerman
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Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.
Taiichi Ohno
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The fact that there isn't a performance right for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.
Neil Portnow
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Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.
Michael Gove
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It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.
Jim Gaffigan
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She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
Nevil Shute
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The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
Kelly Clarkson
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but even the facts do not always tell the truth
Paul Auster
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I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.
Casey Abrams