#facts

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

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The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases. ↗

— Charles Edwards

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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. ↗

— Brendan Gill

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If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#as far as #denied #facts #failed #far

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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