Facts Quotes
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
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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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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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I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
Nan Goldin
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
Anthony Caro
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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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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
William Osler
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The fact that you can see a movie at home, it's great. You're making it for as many people to see it as possible. And that's nice.
Adam Sandler
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I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
Tony Kushner
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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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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
Albert Einstein
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
Andy Grove
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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 will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.
Bill Gothard
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The fact of the matter is, that mistakes are really important way to learn...
Mark Frauenfelder
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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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I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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When everyone faces the harsh facts of life and comes to understand that privilege is not a right but a reward, we shall return to full employment because there is more than enough work to keep the whole world busy.
R. M. Williams
