#facts

Attitudes are more important than facts. ↗

— George MacDonald

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You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#business #check #concerned #correct #end

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. ↗

— John Malkovich

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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ↗

— Paul de Man

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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art. ↗

— Charles McCabe

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