Facts Quotes
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
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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.
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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.
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[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
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We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
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The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
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Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
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A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.
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The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.
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They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists, And a Devil's alive...I'm just caught in the mix.
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If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.
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I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.
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Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.
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Facts cling to photographs like dust.
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
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I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.
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Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.
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Learn, compare, collect the facts!
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Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.
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We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
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I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.
