My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.
Michael Shermer
PeopleMeStrongFactsFindAlways
Facts are not interesting to me.
Ray Bradbury
MeFactsInteresting
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
Lion Feuchtwanger
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Abraham Robinson
SmallFactsKnowTrueAcceptMay
Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.
Mimi Kennedy
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Paul Berg
TimeFactsDiscoveryLostNever
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
Ken Burns
MusicResearchFactsWayComposers
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton
NatureFactsHuman NatureGoHuman
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
Louis Stokes
PurposePeopleFactsAmericanThem
The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
Nick Hanauer
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I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.
Kim Fields
LifePeopleFactsGenerationsEffect
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
Barney Frank
PeopleFactsOpinionsInformation
Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
Jay Parini
HistoryFactsForgetLittleWhere
You need to have the advice from experienced people coming from different kinds of educational and backgrounds in general, and then you can make a decision. But you need people around you that you trust to give you advice, and you need to make sure that the facts of the case are presented.
Margrethe Vestager
TrustDecisionPeopleFactsAdvice
I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.
Jimmy Carter
FutureI AmFactsConfidentBetter
The fascination with Judas has persisted despite the fact that there is no evidence of the hard facts of his life. Even the 'Iscariot' attached to him may be nothing more significant than a corruption of the name of the town from which he came.
Justin Cartwright
LifeFactsNameCorruptionNothing
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
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Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.
Lawrence Lessig
SpaceFactsInternetYouPlaceKnow
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.
Jim DeMint
LookingFactsIrresponsibleBeenWho
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
Julian Baggini
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A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.
Don Drysdale
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This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?
Kazuo Ishiguro
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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Johan Huizinga
HistoryFactsConnectionsSenseOnly
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
Hervey Allen
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