Matter Of Fact Quotes - Page 5

• As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

  Kenneth Grahame

  People, Imagination, Matter

  Kenneth Grahame (2013). “The Golden Age”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

  John McCain

  Political, Negative, Campaigns

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Here's good news: George W. Bush says that he is committed to fighting global warming. Yeah, well, he nipped that in the bud, didn't he? ... President Bush says he's really going to buckle down now and fight global warming. As a matter of fact, he announced today he's sending 20,000 troops to the sun

  David Letterman

  Fighting, President, Matter

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• God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Mind, Matter

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• If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Facts, Matter, Made

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Devil, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.119, Routledge

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• As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mind, Religion, Doe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

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• When you look at "Obamacare," the Congressional Budget Office has said it will cost $2,500 a year more than traditional insurance. So it's adding to cost. And as a matter of fact, when the president ran for office, he said that by this year he would have brought down the cost of insurance for each family by $2,500 a family. Instead, it's gone up by that amount. So it's expensive. Expensive things hurt families. So that's one reason I don't want it.

  Mitt Romney

  Hurt, Years, Obamacare

  First presidential Obama-Romney debate at the University of Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Facts

  David Hume (1784). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.118

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• I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, School, Discovery

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• It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

  Walter Lord

  Nice, Hero, Character

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• And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

  David Dinkins

  Foundation, Matter, Facts

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• As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

  David Dinkins

  School, Law, Matter

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• As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

  Edward Sapir

  Matter, Facts, Language

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

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• In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Clever, Cities

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.25, Oxford University Press, USA

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• "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Independence, Mind

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• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Sports, Failure, Learning

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• Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

  David Hume

  Errors, Matter, Facts

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

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• In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

  John Searle

  Simple, Decision, Matter

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Thinking, Long, People

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• As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Winning, Years

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• I don't care who wins, I'll fight either one of them. As a matter of fact, I'll fight them both on the same night if they want.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Fighting, Night

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• We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Lonely, Should Have, Wind

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• The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

  David R. Brower

  Powerful, Clubs, Matter

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• As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

  Joe Biden

  Years, Political, Speech

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