Facts Quotes - Page 14

• One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

  Edward Lucie-Smith

  Art, Different, May

  Edward Lucie-Smith (1980). “Art in the seventies”

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• The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in the phrase ‘God created Man in his own image’. This ‘divine image’, the characteristics of which we must study in detail, can be found on all levels, and is the hallmark of a cosmos.

  Rodney Collin

  Book, Men, Design

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• There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.

  Jim Marrs

  Morning, War, Exercise

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• So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Law, People, House

  Cheryl Mendelson (2005). “Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.

  Mike Moran

  Safe Haven, Google, Marketing

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• People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, People, Republic

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• That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  "North Korea racist, not communist, says author". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 17, 2010.

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• Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Ideas, News

  "An Observation Regarding Fact-checking and Journalism From an Outsider" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2012.

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• A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

  Craig Newmark

  Writing, Editing, People

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• I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Craig Newmark from Nov 28, 2011

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• My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team.

  Bode Miller

  Team, Racing, Shapes

  "Bad boy bode" by Bill Saporito, James Graff, Helen Scott-Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.

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• It was the best 10 years of my career, in fact they are the only team I ever actually played for. That’s what happens when you play for Everton, you forget the rest, the rest means nothing.

  Duncan Ferguson

  Team, Mean, Years

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• There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Humility, Arrogant, Able

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.225, SPCK

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• Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Dream, Branches, Barren

  Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Kneeknock Rise”, p.8, Macmillan

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• If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

  Evan Sayet

  Cute, Civilization, Evil

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• I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Writing, Answers

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• I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Reflection, Thinking, Talking

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• Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.

  Stanley Cavell

  Sadness, Answers, Comedy

  Stanley Cavell (1981). “Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage”, p.259, Harvard University Press

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• We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had.

  Chris Rock

  Jesus, Years, Nerves

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• What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Blood, People

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• When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Sky, Progress, Faces

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• Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

  James David Barber

  President, Firsts, Modern

  "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

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• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  Wil McCarthy

  Crush, Strong, Love Is

  Wil McCarthy (2009). “The Collapsium”, p.319, Bantam

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• Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close

  Dalia Mogahed

  Kindness, Simple, World

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• The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.

  F. William Engdahl

  War, Mean, Eugenics

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