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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. ↗

— Ken Burns

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. ↗

— John Burroughs

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Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored. ↗

— Robert Casey

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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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