"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."

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"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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?"

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

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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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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Criticism

"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."

Liberal

"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."

People

"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."

Skepticism

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

Being

"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."

Accountability

"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."

Evil

"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."

Time

"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."

Policy

"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."

Body