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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

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

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, faith

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about judges, games, law

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of...

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about ignorance, education, nothing

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious...

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about common sense, sense

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Quote by Hans Eysenck about diplomacy, tact, politics, science, affair, things

And if you're a journalist, surely the thing that you...

And if you're a journalist, surely the thing that you should be writing is the truth, or at least checking your facts.

Quote by Elton John about journalism, writing, truth, things, contentment

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Quote by Robert Owen about religion, error, faith

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the...

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about education, games

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they...

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about interest, problems

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any...

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about need

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about circumstances

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts...

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about problems

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go...

Quote by George S. Patton about time, moral, fear, contentment

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