Facts Quotes
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Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
William of Occam
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
Upton Sinclair
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Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!
Rod Stewart
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
D. T. Suzuki
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
Dorothy Dunnett
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
Andrew Vachss
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The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
George Gilder
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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.
H. G. Wells
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
A.S.A. Harrison
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Concealment of negative facts that might influence a consumer to purchase another manufacturer's product is the essence of fraud.
Eliot Spitzer
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If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.
Jacques Lacan
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot
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It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.
Jack Reed
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
Rob Zombie
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.
Donald Miller
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We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
Eglantyne Jebb
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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Michael Faraday
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Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.
Ted Dekker
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
Barry Commoner
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Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton