Facts Quotes
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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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If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.
Bonnie Fuller
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The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my title-winning goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Sergio Aguero
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
Barton Gellman
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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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Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.
Shari Arison
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The fact of the matter is, that mistakes are really important way to learn...
Mark Frauenfelder
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What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
Albert Einstein
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Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Farley Mowat
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I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
Freya Stark
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When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
Nicki Minaj
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
Allan Douglass Coleman
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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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Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
Mackenzie King
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Don't face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
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Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
Marlo Thomas
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As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.
Stefan Edberg
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Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.
Lurlene McDaniel
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In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.
Dolly Parton
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the system of procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with eyes wide open."
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts.
Erwin Rommel
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So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.
Erving Goffman