Facts Quotes - Page 20

• An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Thinking, Looks, Way

  Theodore Sturgeon (1965). “More Than Human”

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• Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.

  Anthony Eden

  Real, Europe, Political

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1962). “Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs”, London : Cassell

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• What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Lying, Moving, Thinking

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.8, Island Press

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• Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.

  Jacques Monod

  Mean, Thinking, Theory Of Evolution

  "Evolution". Book edited by Mark Ridley, p. 389, 1997.

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• I've interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I've really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don't ultimately know where they're going. That's terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.

  Paul Scheuring

  Pilots, Bigs, Shows

  "ZERO HOUR Executive Producers Paul Scheuring, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Zack Estrin and Dan McDermott Talk About the New ABC Drama". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Feelings, Robots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.

  Anne Lamott

  Energy, Made, One Thing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

  Eddie Izzard

  Dream, Trying, Honorable

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In fact if you're a mother or a father, you're filled with oxytocin when you have a child. It makes you love the baby, even though they look like a lizard .You'll think it's the beautiful thing in the world.

  Tony Robbins

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Addresses, These Days

  "Betty White looks back on ‘The Golden Girls’". Associated Press Interview, blog.chron.com. September 15, 2010.

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• In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Law, Matter

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.

  Paul Potts

  Phones, Teeth, Firsts

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• The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

  Ala Bashir

  Art, Truth, Invitations

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• I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.

  Arman

  Art, Our World, Long

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• The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.

  Christian Boltanski

  Education, Art, Believe

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• At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Pain, Moving, Loss

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• You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to go and post about your bowel movement on Facebook. And I'm not even talking about legacy; I'm talking about the fact that I personally feel most alive when I'm making something, and I feel least alive when I'm being led around by some obnoxious use of my attention that I wasn't aware of. To me, that's the thing. You can buy the jogging shoes and you can buy the Runner's World, but until you put them on and walk out the door every day, you're just a fat man.

  Merlin Mann

  Men, Iphone, Doors

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• My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Two, Numbers

  "An interview with the president". Interview with John Micklethwait and Edward Carr, www.economist.com. August 2, 2014.

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• Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.

  Will Alsop

  Beautiful, Morning, Ugly

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• The fact that a trick fooled you is not enough reason to perform it.

  Darwin Ortiz

  Reason, Enough, Tricks

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• If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Games, Matter

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.

  Jonathan Schell

  Hair, Years, Fire

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press

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• The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Believe, Mean, Axes

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• In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

  Richard McCabe

  Night, Careers, Two

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• A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.

  Walter Lippmann

  Cutting, Useless, Income

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.74, University of Wisconsin Pres

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