"Fact is often stranger than fiction because most……" — Richard Posner
"Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible."
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13 Quotes by Richard Posner
Richard Posner has 13 quotes on this site.
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A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works.…
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I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order…
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The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because…
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Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not…
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But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under…
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If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is…
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In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion…
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MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to…
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I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and…
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It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed…
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Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children…
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More Fact Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact…
— Giorgio Armani
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
— David Attenborough
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
— Chinua Achebe
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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