#fact

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#always #anything #does #expert #facts

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance. ↗

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#dairy #eggs #factory-farming #food #ignorance

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. ↗

— Seymour Simon

#exploring #facts #kids #teaching #change

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#blow #brain #computer #facts #go

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right. ↗

— David R. Brower

#conservation #doing #fact #faster #force

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race. ↗

— Alain Prost

#fact #in fact #judge #only #race

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#less #memory #resisted #satisfaction #some

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. ↗

— Willie Dixon

#expressed #facts #feeling #inspiration #life

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#emotions #facts #inversely #knowledge #varies

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#handicraft #industry #lifted #major #manufacture