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My facts shall
be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts
that they shall be significant, shall be myths or
mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which
the body thought -- with these I deal.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
Get your facts
first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
It is easier
to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to
believe a fact that no one has heard before.
-- Source Unknown
Never forget
the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts
that causes comment.
-- Source Unknown
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I often wish
that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are
facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where
we have agreed to let investigation cease.
-- Source Unknown
Facts are
generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing
is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it
was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable,
tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows
among shadows.
-- John Updike
1932-, American Novelist,
Critic
It is the
spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how
suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter
how true.
-- Gore Vidal
1925-, American Novelist,
Critic
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