#facts

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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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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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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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. ↗

— David Seabury

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Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough. ↗

— Paul Simon

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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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