Quotes with facts

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  • Al Gore I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Christina Rossetti I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • John McGahern I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
    (2002)
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Alfred de Vigny 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
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Cynthia Ozick I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Bill Ackman I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Herman Melville If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Albert Einstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bob Kane If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Mary McCarthy In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Ben Carson Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Mark Twain It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
    A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Brian Friel It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
    Brian Friel
    Irish playwright (1929 - 2015)
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