All Quotes By Tag: Fact
“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.”
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“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”
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“Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.”
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“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”
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“News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.”
“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a ‘reality’ that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue–only we’ve all been issued the wrong librettos. For a text, we’re given the Bible. Or the Talmud or the Koran. We’re given Time magazine, and Reader’s Digest, daily papers, and the six o’clock news; we’re given schoolbooks, sitcoms, and revisionist histories; we’re given psychological counseling, cults, workshops, advertisements, sales pitches, and authoritative pronouncements by pundits, sold-out scientists, political activists, and heads of state. Unfortunately, none of these translations bears more than a faint resemblance to what is transpiring in the true theater of existence, and most of them are dangerously misleading. We’re attempting to comprehend the spiraling intricacies of a magnificently complex tragicomedy with librettos that describe the barrom melodramas or kindergarten skits. And when’s the last time you heard anybody bitch about it to the management?”
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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
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“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or which deity works for whom. Sincere religion and tested science are similar in that their assertions can be argued logically and objectively; otherwise, we get false cults and babble.”
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“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
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“The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.”
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