facts

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History is but a confused heap of facts.

- Chesterfield, Lord

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

- Genet, Jean

4.

There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.

- Montapert, William D.

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

- Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

- Pope, Alexander

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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

- Mark Twain

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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

- Iacocca, Lee

10.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

- Rushdie, Salman

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

- Douglas, William O.

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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

- Menninger, Karl A.

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

- Carlyle, Thomas

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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.

- Spolin, Viola

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I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news-- With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

- Gilbert & Sullivan

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

- Kersha, Al

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

- Herzen, Alexander

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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

- Chuck Palahniuk