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Fact Quotes


"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."



"I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded."


"The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like."


"But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place."


"The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast."
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"We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."


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


"To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many."


"Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted."
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"Let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts."


"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."


"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."
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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."


"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."


"And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through."


"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."


"Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian."
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"The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence."


"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."


"A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free."


"I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."


"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."


"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."


"I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me."
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"I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact."


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


"The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known."


"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."
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"In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia."
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