Facts Quotes - Page 25

• In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

  Valerie Solanas

  Magic, Female, Cracks

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated.

  David Attenborough

  Beautiful, Reptiles, Dull

  "Life in Cold Blood". Documentary, 2008.

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• Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

  J. L. Austin

  World, Littles, Needs

  "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 182, 1979.

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• However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

  J. L. Austin

  Diction, May, Language

  "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 195, 1979.

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• Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Latin, Government, Leader

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.

  Theodor Adorno

  Blessing, Doe, Birth

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.9, Stanford University Press

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• Women are so often segregated to their sexuality, and how they appear. In fact, there's a lot of talk, even now, I think in most jobs this is true... people will say, when a woman rises to power, they ask, 'who did she sleep with?' You know, it couldn't possibly be about her acumen, it couldn't possibly be about her intelligence. It's got to be about her body, because that's how women get ahead.

  Jennifer Beals

  Jobs, Sleep, Thinking

  Chatelaine Interview, www.chatelaine.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.

  Julien Benda

  Leader, Honor, Crowds

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 110-111, 1927.

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• Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

  Marvin Bower

  Decision, Should, Approach

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one.

  Michael Behe

  Thinking, Astrology, Data

  "Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District". Trial transcript: Day 11, www.talkorigins.org. October 18, 2005.

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• The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Roles, Dinosaurs, Extinction

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• In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Eye, Reality, Space

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.80, Macmillan

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• The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Law, Needs, Earth

  "A World View of Criminal Justice" by Richard K. Vogler, (p. 116), 2005.

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• We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trying, Opinion, Ready

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

  William James

  Insanity, Vision, Horror

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.158, Booklassic

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• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Men, Intellectual, Doubt

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

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• Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce.

  William James

  Strong, Animal, Men

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.24.

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• As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

  William James

  Views, Bird, Different

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

  William James

  Enough, Ifs

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• Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

  William James

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.223, Routledge

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• The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Men, Boys

  "Ambrose Bierce: A Biography". Book by Richard O'Connor, 1968.

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• The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.

  Marcel Proust

  Communication, Animal, Inspire

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.257, Modern Library

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• This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Real, Believe

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• An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Law, Degrees

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

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• When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Indulge In, Ignorant

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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