Quotes: facts
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An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
Source: Politics and the English Language (1945)
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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.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
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But facts are facts and flinch not.
Source: The ring and the book
