Facts Quotes
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We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
R.K. Narayan
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Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
Garry Winogrand
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Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.
Andreas Gursky
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
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“I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.
Alix Ohlin
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Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
William James
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
Abu Bakr
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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
Dan Pink
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
Willa Cather
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I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!
Gabby Douglas
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Don't face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.
Richard Holbrooke
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Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.
Michael Frayn
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The fact of the matter is, that mistakes are really important way to learn...
Mark Frauenfelder
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality.
Ivan Pavlov
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I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.
Tom Lehrer
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I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.
Emilio Pucci
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Thats all were worried about is just facts, the facts, which are public record, tell a totally different story than what this documentary talks about.
Marlon Jackson The Jacksons
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
William Osler
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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1600 Penn is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world.
Josh Gad
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Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.
Aristotle
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First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so as thus to discern the particular laws governing a certain class of phenomena. In general, it is not until after these particular laws have been established that one can expect to discover and articulate the more general laws that complete theories by bringing a multitude of apparently very diverse phenomena together under a single governing principle.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy