"But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine."
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"The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power."
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"'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it."
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"The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings."
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"Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good."
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"A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other."
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"It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact."
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"Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties."
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"Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth."
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"You must look at facts, because they look at you."
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"These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts."
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"There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed."
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"More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them."
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"As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes."
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"The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument."
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"I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from."
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"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another."
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"One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view."
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"The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause."
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"The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist."
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