Facts Quotes
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There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.
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Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.
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The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.
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People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.
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For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
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I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.
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The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.
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Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.
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I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.
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I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary world is provincial when it comes to matters of art. And it always has been.
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Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.
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Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
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Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.
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Empiricism and positivism share the common view that scientific knowledge should in some way be derived from the facts arrived at by observation.
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
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People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.
