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Fact Quotes
"While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them."
9
"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."
9
"As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then."
9
"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."
9
"I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one."
9
"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided."
9
"Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it."
Fact,
8
"Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened."
8
"I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable."
8
"In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form."
8
"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."
8
"The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one."
8
"It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years."
8
"It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem."
8
"Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand."
8
"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."
8
"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."
8
"We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information."
8
"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
8
"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."
8
"The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion."
8
"Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece."
8
"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me."
7
"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."
7
"The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president."
7
"In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own."
7
"The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days."
7
"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."
Fact,
7
"I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation."
7
"As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact."
Fact,
7
"In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted."
7
"I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride."
7
"Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems."
Fact,
7
"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you."
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