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161 quotesPerception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
Perception
A Course In Miracles
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Brooks Adams
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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
Business
H. V. Adolt
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
Parents and Parenting
American Proverb
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It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
Finance
Mary Archer
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
Hell
W. H. Auden
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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Weddings
Walter Bagehot
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Equality
Honore De Balzac
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I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
Communication
John Banham
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Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
Dreams
Djuna Barnes
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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Opinions
Bernard M. Baruch
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Critics and Criticism
Jean Baudrillard
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Feminism
Simone De Beauvoir
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Facts
Walter Benjamin
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Education
Alec Bourne
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People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.
Facts
Sharon Anthony Bower
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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
Facts
Fogg Brackell
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Memory
James Branch Cabell
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Sex
Bertolt Brecht
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Media
Bertolt Brecht
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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Intuition
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Praise
Jean De La Bruyere
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Albert Camus
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Words
Willa Cather
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
History and Historians
Lord Chesterfield
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun