- Look
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.
- Averse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020