#facts

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. ↗

— Hervey Allen

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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#bath #facts #fish #giving #life

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. ↗

— William Bernbach

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If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

#going #hear #me #speak #want

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

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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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