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If a man will
kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds
it again in the chimney corner.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
No facts are
to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an
endless seeker, with no past at my back.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Time
dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Every fact is
related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to
morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of
these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find
the under side.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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Facts and
truth really don't have much to do with each other.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
To some
lawyers, all facts are created equal.
-- Felix Frankfurter
1882-1965, Austrian-born
American Law Teacher, Judge
Get the facts,
or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em
right, or they will get you wrong.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
Anyone who
knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
-- Jean Genet
1910-1986, French Playwright,
Novelist
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