"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."

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"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"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."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."

"War is an abstraction."

"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."

"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."

"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."