Facts Quotes
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I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.
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As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.
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Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.
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The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
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I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.
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The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.
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Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.
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It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.
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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
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It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.
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Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
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This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.
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I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
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I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
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Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
