#acts

The facts are always less than what really happened. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

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There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable. ↗

— Seth Gordon

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When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. ↗

— Al Gore

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I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts. ↗

— Al Gore

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There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. ↗

— Asa Gray

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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ↗

— Celia Green

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Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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