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Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.


Louis Agassiz

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, A SLIGHT MISQUOTE OF JOHN ADAMS, "FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS." Facts are stupid things.
RONALD REAGAN Some people are stupid. so stupid, like real morons. But look, that's not against the Law
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BRENT PLATER Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO In general, (the complaints) are people disagreeing with the law and with tactics.
CAROLYN BECK Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connec...
ANAIS NIN Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connec...
ANAïS NIN The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equali...
ROBERT BORK I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
LOUIS AGASSIZ The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it ...
LOUIS AGASSIZ Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; nex...
LOUIS AGASSIZ The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were...
LOUIS AGASSIZ Study nature, not books.
LOUIS AGASSIZ The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as i...
LOUIS AGASSIZ I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth
LOUIS AGASSIZ Study nature, not books
LOUIS AGASSIZ The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
LOUIS AGASSIZ Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; nex...
LOUIS AGASSIZ There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went d...
ARTHUR GORDON Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neith...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Microsoft's pitch seems to say that big antitrust cases have to take forever or they can't be brough...
DONALD FALK In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ...
NOAM CHOMSKY As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the la...
BEN CHANDLER We believe that the first prosecutions should occur in those jurisdictions that provide the best law...
JOHN ASHCROFT In every matter we make our decisions based on the facts and the law.
GINA TALAMONA The firing of my assistant was nothing but a political pay back because I stated the facts and the l...
LORI MONTAG This is a tragic case for all involved. But the facts in this matter fall squarely within the law an...
MARIA SCHNEIDER A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...
JASON LAUMARK In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
JUDY GARLAND The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the mos...
JAMES G. FRAZER The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the mos...
JAMES GEORGE FRAZER As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in th...
BEN CHANDLER General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth a...
NORA ROBERTS Lawyers have an old saying: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your si...
- LAWYERS (IN GENERAL...) My approach to deciding cases is I look at the law, I look at the facts, and I do my best to apply t...
CHARLES T. CANADY The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the c...
JOHN MOODY The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has...
NEAL STEPHENSON You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are...
ALEXANDER HERZEN The fact the rand is firming has to do with the general trend with supportive commodity prices -- al...
ABAH OFON You are all zombie thigh-fat people brought into reanimation by some evil force of forceful evil!
JHONEN VáSQUEZ For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people ...
STEVE AOKI I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The attorney general made the correct decision based on the facts and the law, and based on the prin...
ERIC FEHRNSTROM Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the...
AL GORE How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your s...
UNKNOWN That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too...
JONATHAN DEE There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of he...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS When facts were weak, his native cheek brought him serenely through
CHARLES H. SPURGEON How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
BIBLE Some (salaries) are too high, some are too low, and until the IRS looked into it in 2004, no one kne...
MIKE DOBZINSKI To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
FELIX FRANKFURTER To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
FELIX FRANKFURTER To some lawyers, all facts are created equal
FELIX FRANKFURTER We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts whic...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We also had to look at the law and facts and given that in Maryland, seeking of the death penalty al...
DOUGLAS GANSLER All law operates on the basis that if the facts change, then the law changes -- and the law is going...
LORD FALCONER We each have our own language.
Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sens...
HOLLY SMALE It's an inane law that's a holdover from prohibition. It limits a third of the world's beer styles. ...
SEAN WILSON It's a law that looks underhanded to everybody ... stupid.
LUIS ERNESTO DERBEZ These people are using us as their primary connection to the Internet. Whether they are looking for ...
BETH HANSEN The attorney general took an oath to uphold the Constitution and serve the American public - not to ...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
STEPHEN BREYER We will remain until midnight, until the last moment we can stay. We are law-abiding citizens.
GILA MAIMON Then we ran into some of their good seniors who brought them back.
CODY CHRISTENSEN Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Eric Holder was one of the most honorable, most effective public servants in memory. He had only the...
REID WEINGARTEN As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more st...
SIMON ZINGERMAN If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.
DAVID BRIN Everybody said Einstein was crazy and stupid, until Einstein proved the world is crazy and stupid.
SIMION ALEXANDRU Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.
PHILIP R. BREEZE Don’t perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELL Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-
COMPTON GAGE Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for ...
LISA LESLIE It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fisherm...
ANNE MILLER The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
J. D. SOUTHER Bring out others better side and they are more likely to see and support yours. You can't develop po...
KARE ANDERSON The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in...
KELLY BARTLETT Sometimes I feel like I’m a stranger here. In my own hometown. It’s always been that way. Then I...
C.D. REISS To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conser...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the l...
ALAFAIR BURKE I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and A...
NIGEL FARAGE Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.
REGINALD ROSE We have no law on hacking. We are consulting some technical experts to see how it would fit into wir...
FEDERICO OPINION I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no ge...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN I was amazed about how he brought these characters to life, ... I was fascinated watching Paul Winch...
DENNIS DANIELS Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being ...
TED HUGHES I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains ...
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LOUIS FARRAKHAN I would rather be called a character actor than a star.
LOUIS JOURDAN We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
LOUIS LEAKEY If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR In week one of the 'X Factor,' just to be a little bit quirky, I decided to say that I like ...
LOUIS TOMLINSON Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which...
LOUIS PASTEUR In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the nig...
LOUIS MACNEICE The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is al...
LOUIS GARREL My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
LOUIS SUSMAN It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved...
LOUIS TOMLINSON A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
LOUIS THEROUX The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master...
LOUIS SULLIVAN No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Cl...
LOUIS MACNEICE