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title: "7 Inconvenient Facts Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Inconvenient Facts quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Inconvenient Facts sayings and thoughts."
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> [Realization: I spend a large amount of my working day in all of my jobs dealing with people who are hostile to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/realization-i-spend-a-large-amount-of-my-working-day-in-all-of-my/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-mcconnell/the-people-who-would-call-me-an-obstructionist-overlook-some/)

[Mitch McConnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-mcconnell/)

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> [Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-goldberg/liberals-and-leftists-have-been-dismissing-inconvenient-facts-by/)

[Jonah Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-goldberg/)

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> [“how easily people can zealously pursue and defend a point of view, often ignoring inconvenient facts that interfere with their desired belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-allan/how-easily-people-can-zealously-pursue-and-defend-a-point-of-view/)

[Jay Allan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-allan/)

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> [“In every generation there have been matters which the general public is irresistibly tempted to ignore, partly through actual lack of information,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-g-coulton/in-every-generation-there-have-been-matters-which-the-general-public/)

[G. G. Coulton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-g-coulton/)

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> [The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-primary-task-of-a-useful-teacher-is-to-teach-his-students-to/)

[Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/)

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> [Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-bergen/hersh-s-account-of-the-bin-laden-raid-is-a-farrago-of-nonsense-that/)

[Peter Bergen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-bergen/)

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