#fact

If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors. ↗

— Hans Blix

#factors #impatience #maybe #military #military action

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#academic #also #america #consider #debt

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#definition #examines #facts #historian #incapable

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#fact #finds #freud #freudian #gives

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#does #facts #fanatic #knew #lord

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#after #although #ask #character #fact

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#demonstrate #disarming #fact #government #help

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#cannot #content #desire #each #fictions

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#china #closer #costs #eastern #eastern europe

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip