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Friday 19th of April 2024

Fact  In the cockney accent, Michael Caine is pronounced “my cocaine” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Facts Birth, and copulation, and death That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks; Birth, and copulation, and death T. S. Eliot, Sweeney Agonistes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Facts  Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan © 2023 Kwiple.com
Facts Facts are stupid things. Ronald Reagan © 2023 Kwiple.com
Facts Facts are what you feel comfortable believing. No one in your social group is likely to challenge you. Edward Luce, on divisiveness in America Financial Times, December 21, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Facts During the first day of public impeachment hearings on Wednesday, Mark Meadows, one of Mr Trump's most loyal congressional allies, said: “Everyone has their own impression of what truth is.” When conservatives embrace relativism, facts have clearly lost their use. Edward Luce, Financial Times, November 13, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Facts Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.  Aldous Huxley © 2023 Kwiple.com
Facts Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain quoted by Rudyard Kipling in “From Sea to Sea, No. XXXVII” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Facts I'll never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are. George H. W. Bush © 2016 Kwiple.com
Facts [N]o reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.  Sidney Powell, on her widely-believed lies about voting fraud by Dominion Voting Systems voting machines and Smartmatic software during the 2020 presidential election © 2023 Kwiple.com
Facts [N]o reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.  Sidney Powell, on her widely-believed lies about voting fraud by Dominion Voting Systems voting machines and Smartmatic software during the 2020 presidential election © 2023 Kwiple.com
Facts Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Thomas Gradgrind, school board Superintendent, in Charles Dickens's Hard Times  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Facts Our recent research … examined a slippery way by which people get away from facts that contradict their beliefs. Of course, sometimes people just dispute the validity of specific facts. But we find that sometimes they go one step further and, as in the opening example [in which people transformed debate about safety of immunization into debate about parental rights], reframe an issue in untestable ways. This makes potential important facts and science ultimately irrelevant to the issue. Troy Campbell and Justin Friesen, Why People “Fly from Facts,” Scientific American, March 3, 2016 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Facts The problem in western democracies is not mass confusion about points of fact. The problem is that, even when apprised of the facts, even when exposed to the most objectively persuasive arguments, millions of voters remain unmoved. In a blurring of the line between politics and sport, they have picked their team, and that is that. … In other words: my president, right or wrong. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, March 7, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Facts To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then  no one can criticize power because there is no basis on which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Facts When the facts change,  I change my mind. What do you do, sir? John Maynard Keynes © 2019 Kwiple.com