"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."

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"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."

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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

William James, American Philosopher

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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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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."

Oliver Cromwell, English Soldier

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"Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same."

John Wozniak, American Musician

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"Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in."

Grace Napolitano, American Politician

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"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."

Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat

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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me."

Karrie Webb, Australian Athlete

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"They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel."

Time

"We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important."

Time

"I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments."

People

"We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue."

Policy

"Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress."

Politics

"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

Land

"Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process."

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"No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience."

Experience

"Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict."

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"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."

Economy