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Quotations regarding 'Facts'

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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry B. Adams, Historian (1838-1918)
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B. Adams, Historian (1838-1918)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams, Historian (1838-1918)
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams, American President (1735-1826)
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher (1902-2001)
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz, Swiss Scientist (1807-1873)
When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
Alan Alda, American Actor (1936-  )
These are facts, these are not imaginary things.
Iyad Allawi, Iraqi Statesman
Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
Hervey Allen, American Author (1889-1949)
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory, American Historian (1917-1998)
It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.
Dillon Anderson, American Politician
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou, American Poet (1928-  )
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian Statesman (1941-  )
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
Howard Baker, American Statesman (1925-  )
When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
Alec Baldwin, American Actor (1958-  )
Don't confuse facts with reality.
Robert D. Ballard, Scientist
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
Amiri Baraka, American Poet (1934-  )
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