Facts Quotes
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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts.
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I know you Donald Trump live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.
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There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
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Considering the fact that I've used it in the past, and know what it is, and seen the results of it, I don't view marijuana as a dangerous drug.
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A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
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I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.
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The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.
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Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.
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In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
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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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The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.
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Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Due to the fact that .375 H&H magnum ammunition is available all over the world, the .375 H&H becomes a very good choice of a plains rifle for Africa. I found that many of the 17 white hunters regularly employed by White Hunters Limited of Niarobi used a .375 for their medium rifle, and most all of them considered it ideal.
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Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
