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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.


Oliver Tambo

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STEVEN REDHEAD Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
OSCAR WILDE Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
OSCAR WILDE Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
OSCAR WILDE Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing
OSCAR WILDE Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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JANE DEPRIEST When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
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MICHAEL LEWIS Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
MATT GROENING Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
DAN CASTELLANETA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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CYNTHIA OZICK I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
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ROBERT MUELLER We have looked at the price they paid for the deals. Our conclusion is that they are not overpaying.
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CARL ROGERS The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL R. ROGERS Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
J.M. ROBERTS Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We're going to file a cross-complaint against these people. We will deny the allegations as not true...
ARTHUR BARENS It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again....
AGATHA CHRISTIE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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SHEL SILVERSTEIN Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory
STEPHEN JAY GOULD Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON Feelings are real. They often become one’s reality. But they are not always based on truth.
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JANE AUSTEN The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon a...
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NEIL GAIMAN I have to live with the facts as they are, rather than as I wish they would be or think they might b...
ED KEON I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.
FRANCIS ALYS Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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ANON. I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromise...
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TONY DUNGY I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
ELIZABETH REASER Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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ARISTOTLE Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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