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- Nov 07, 2020
Facts Quotes
What the evidence actually says.
These quotes treat facts as something almost alive: strange, unbelievable, worth chasing down. One line ties scientific honesty to national survival, another pushes back on accusations of media bias by insisting reporters are simply describing what happened, in the spirit of Knowledge quotes.
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of the halo as a device. I have to face facts - it does bring something in terms of safety.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually grew up watching 'Survivorman' and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
- Shadow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I got my hands on the Mueller report, the thing I'd want to see is what are the reasons why Barr made the conclusion about obstruction of justice that he did? Was it because of the facts? If so, why didn't he try and interview Trump to learn all the facts?
- Fundamental Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever. But I believe in facts.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I care about facts. I don't care about your feelings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often debate liberals on Fox News Channel who tend to start yelling and attacking when they run out of facts or common sense. I suppose these folks figure if they bow up and get in our faces, we'll just back down and see the world their way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020