#facts

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

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The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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