#fact

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#consistency #details #dramatic-effect #facts #sherlock-holmes

Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#daily #fact #let us #opportunity #order

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#crime #cultural #deeply #distress #entrenched

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#energy #facts #most #power #serious

I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out. ↗

— Casey Abrams

#could #fact #far #freaked #going

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#bad #broad #courts #facts #forth

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#facts #game #i #i think #judges

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#again #because #behind #country #difference

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ↗

— John Adams

#cannot #dictates #evidence #facts #inclinations

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ↗

— John Adams

#been #chicanery #division #faction #great