Facts Quotes
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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.
Alan Chalmersun
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There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
Sandra Bernhard
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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.
Hannah Fidell
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On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.
Terence McKenna
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One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.
Keith Olbermann
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
Plato
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I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Septima Poinsette Clark
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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
Virginia Woolf
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Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.
Rick Perry
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Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Ivan Pavlov
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All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.
Audie Cornish
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The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.
Andrew Dickson White
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I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Bram Stoker
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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom Stoppard
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They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.
Augustin Misago
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I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.
Evo Morales
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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Aristotle
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I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.
Terry Gross
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I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.
Tom Hollander
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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
Seth Godin
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Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
Peter Pace