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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. ↗

— Robert Owen

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Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Nature is our salvation, not technology or the intellect. Technology can neither save us nor destroy us. Technology can only aid the will, thus it is the will and our choices which determine everything. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. ↗

— Sophia Loren

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. ↗

— John Malkovich

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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ↗

— Paul de Man

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Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article. ↗

— John Mica

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