#facts

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money. ↗

— Jack Kingston

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Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing. ↗

— Joe Sacco

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ↗

— George Santayana

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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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