#acts

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#cannot #change #distort #facts #find

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#contacts #contagion #daily #disease #enough

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

#coincides #facts #foresee #future #grossly

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#attracts #being #i #i do #live

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#european #extraordinary #facts #greece #help

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. ↗

— Sean Parker

#contracts #get #happening #lot #paid

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#facts #far #interest #problems #relevant

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#acts #between #causes #desire #force