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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
― Bernard M. Baruch
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
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In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
Source: Politics and the English Language (1945) -
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
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Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Source: The Writer and the World (2012) 225 -
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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