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

Chuck Palahniuk
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Dr. Thomas Fuller
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. -John Dewey
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Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

Matt Groening
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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Scott Westerfeld
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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. -Arnold H. Glasgow
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

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

John Adams
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -Albert Einstein
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau
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Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. -Louis Agassiz
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Where facts are few, experts are many.

Donald R. Gannon
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunther
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Samuel McChord Crothers
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Henry Kissinger
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Dr. Linus Pauling
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -Mark Twain
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

Mark Twain
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It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain
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Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. -Mark Twain
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain
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The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

William Macneile Dixon
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. -John Henry Cardinal Newman
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Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.

George Orwell
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley
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Facts are stupid things. -Ronald Reagan
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