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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#cannot #change #distort #facts #find

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#fault #find #man #nothing #until

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. ↗

— James Newman

#compares #does #doing #else #groups

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#common #familiar #ideas #men #more

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#done #fault #find #nothing #until

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#fairly #laws #legitimate #may #such

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I. ↗