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“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
Albert Einstein
“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one”
George Bernard Shaw
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
Mark Twain
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”
“Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.”
C.S. Lewis
“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
Winston Churchill
“The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Nietzsche