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“knowledge and fact meant nothing to people who were subjected to an adequate dose of fear and prejudice. This simple-mindedness was the most disturbing”

— Annelie Wendeberg

“Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that…

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

“Facts are our friends. The longer we as a society insist on ignoring them when they get too uncomfortable, the more we erode our…

— Stephen H. Segal

“because truth wasn’t the same thing as fact. It was personal.”

— Victoria Schwab

“It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.”

— Dick Francis

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.”

— C.S. Lewis

“perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.”

— Susie Bright

“Because we ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes and a story we tell about ourselves.”

— M.T. Anderson

“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Like most things that were good or bad for you, you reach a stage where what started as a happy habit turns into something…

— Harlan Coben