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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Quote by John Adams about state, things

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each...

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Quote by William Faulkner about reality, truth

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those...

Quote by Floyd Abrams about principle, bad luck, bad, things, good, good luck

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Quote by Douglas Adams about thinking, mind

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.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about state

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact hence changing general statements about it and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about knowledge, body

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Quote by Georges Bataille about crime, criminals, secret, human imperfections, things

All these prove the fact that we cannot accept that everything reduces to the meaning of man, not the fact the signs were always in sight, and they were neither created nor determined, but they would have existed eternally, being that true as to...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about truth, astrology, people, absolute, knowledge, being, man

To love is, in fact, the project planned that you will be...

To love is, in fact, the project planned that you will be loved.

Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre about love

A man who knows all about women, in fact he doesn't know...

A man who knows all about women, in fact he doesn't know even a woman.

Quote by John Ernst Steinbeck about woman, man

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about events, authority, need

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could...

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about progress, people

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

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

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about philosophy

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Quote by Lester Bangs about interest, being, time

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually...

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

Quote by Joe Baca about homeland, security

Neil Young was with Buffalo Springfield at the time. It...

Neil Young was with Buffalo Springfield at the time. It was really cool, the fact that he was doing country and folk.

Quote by Randy Bachman about country, time

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now...

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

Quote by Randy Bachman about internet, people

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

Quote by John Abizaid about experience, people

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

Quote by John Abizaid about force, security, duty

Our troops will do what they need to do to include...

Our troops will do what they need to do to include stepping in between warring factions if that's what's required.

Quote by John Abizaid about need

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