- Law
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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
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths.
- Nov 07, 2020
With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
- Nov 07, 2020