- Face
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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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- Criterion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
- Magazines
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020