- Looking
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Electromagnetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
- Causal
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- Nov 07, 2020
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The facts are, when we played here, we were treated better in Greensboro than any other tournament venue.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020