#facts

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#argue #ever #facts #fit #here

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#blow #both #cause #character #commonly

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#american people #before #country #facts #get

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

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

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

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

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#apart #argument #came #case #certainly

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ↗

— George Combe

#curious #facts #goodness #illustration #mere