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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

David Attenborough

Use, Facts, Opinion

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Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Madeleine L'Engle

People, Doe, Facts

Madeleine L'Engle's acceptance speech on receiving the Margaret Edwards Award (the American Library Association's Lifetime Achievement Award For Writing in the Field of Young Adult Literature) at the American Library Association's annual conference in Washington, D.C., gos.sbc.edu. June 27, 1998.

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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom, Attitude, Believe

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.53, Broadway Books

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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Alan Bennett

Reading, Facts, Briefing

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They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?

Richard Ford

Mother, Children, Father

FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Nov 28, 2015

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...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

Michael Shermer

Religious, Believe, Reality

Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.30, Macmillan

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In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic.

Stuart Franklin

Poetic, Abstract, Impulse

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

Adam Johnson

Wise, Men, Piano

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Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

Richard Dawkins

World, Details, Culture

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Dorianne Laux

Writing, Life Experience

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To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

A.J. Ayer

Numbers, Finite Number, May

"Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 20), 1936.

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For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.

George E. P. Box

Real, Hands, Practice

George E. P. Box, George C. Tiao (1985). “The collected works of George E.P. Box”, Chapman & Hall/CRC

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For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Children, Dragons, Challenges

Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

Colin Firth

Actors, Interpretation, Absolute Truth

"Colin Firth and Tom Hooper interview: The King's Speech, Rocky IV and more". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. January 7, 2011.

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It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

Julia Sawalha

Looks, Dull, Hard

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Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Philosophical, Science, Order

"Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, 1953.

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... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

Toni Cade Bambara

Intelligent, Men, Emotional

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I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

Paddy Chayefsky

Life, God, Letting Go

Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Humor, Truthful

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.

Lawrence Durrell

Travel, Real, Eye

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The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

Bill Crawford

Mean, Past, Mind

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Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

Cheryl Strayed

Memories, Perspective, Memoir

Source: www.motherjones.com

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At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it's barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you've got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.

Eddie Vedder

New York, Thinking, Filters

Source: www.avclub.com

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A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.

Walter Isaacson

Appreciation, Mean, Literature

Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

Paul Kurtz

Reality, Roots, Essentials

Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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