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I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort… — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image
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A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. It consists of perception of fact with instinctive… — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
I feel like when you first start out, people like your story. They like these facts about you. And as you get… — Nav Copy Share Image
Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact… — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Copy Share Image
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or… — David Gergen Copy Share Image
I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
To cultivate your presence, all you need to do is sit quietly for as long as you desire and put your full… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously -… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I would have done anything. I just really love the Duplass brothers. I was at a place where I was desperate for… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than… — Carl W. Ackerman Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine,… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image