- 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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- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
- Nov 07, 2020
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.
- Nov 07, 2020
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
- Firearms
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facts tell us that criminalizing private transfers of firearms among family members and friends under a universal background check system would do nothing to prevent 'gun violence,' and importantly, would not have prevented the profound tragedies that gun banners use to promote such a system.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020