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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.


Joseph Campbell


#every #facts #gets #interpreting #metaphorically

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.


Thomas Carlyle


#devil #fact #facts #god #great

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.


Karl Urban


#always #attempting #come #concept #dream

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.


Elia Kazan


#exact #exists #facts #hard #hysteria

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.


Chevy Chase


#check #facts #filled #i #joking

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.


America Ferrera


#behind #big #definitely #facts #grandfather

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.


Lion Feuchtwanger


#development #facts #historian #humanity #record

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.


Lee Child


#every #every second #facts #gets #i

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.


Kenneth Clarke


#badly #change #colleagues #defeated #face

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.


Albert Claude


#back #been #better #cell #course






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