To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.

Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order…

— Eric Schlosser

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

— Renzo Piano

“If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef, only to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I made love in a HAZMAT suit. I think I contaminated the relationship.”

— Jarod Kintz

The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning…

— Eric Schlosser

Because of the new regulations the regulators have put, they're testing these horses at contaminated levels and it's been a horrible experience.

— Bob Baffert

“None of it was true but rumors are like germs. They spread and multiply almost in a breath and before you know it, everyone…

— C.J. Tudor

“He felt dirty, contaminated, as though he were carrying some deadly germ, unworthy to sit on the underground train back from the hospital with…

— J.K. Rowling

Companies could step up to the plate time and time again and help out by cleaning up a groundwater system that's contaminated, being more…

— Erin Brockovich

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

— Finley Peter Dunne

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated.…

— Jimmy Piersall

“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before you stake…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and…

— Ludwig von Mises

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse