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“The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.”

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Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.”

Men Facts Reality Light Events Truth Is News Function Relation

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.”

“I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.”

Facts Certain Known Events Add Mysterious Realization Fixed Collections Precise Commencement

Author:Ken Burns

“The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.”

Thinking Has Beens Matter Moments Facts Natural Events Obvious Breathing Intimate Engaged Naturalist

Book:Miracles: A Preliminary Study

Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study

“Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to the show that may be reminiscent of other shows. But, it really is a very new kind of show, in terms of the subject matter and the way it's being dealt with, and the fact that it's about real people and real events.”

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Author:Michael Sheen

“The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.”

Has Beens Facts Shows Able Faces Enemy Records Impossible Written Week Events Circumstances Resurrection Disciple Accuracy Jerusalem Crucifixion Proximity Fabricate

Author:William Lane Craig

“If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.”

Ifs Facts Easy Loses Impossible Events Perspective Fairs Conviction Witness Observers Participants Interpreter

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.”

People Facts Shows Problem Happens Dies Failing Events Taste Raises Newspapers Corpses Irresponsible Printing Sensationalism

Book:Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

“Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.”

Facts Happens Events Particular Claims Here And Now

Author:Andreas Gursky

“In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.”

Facts Political Space Events Objects Conflict Gains Starting Radio Interpretation Warfare Representation Strategic Presentation Radar Completing

Author:Paul Virilio

“The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.”

Facts Speak Century Events Significant 20th Century Speak English Significant Events

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”

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Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.”

May Facts Differences Events Standards Profound Versions Subtle Starks

Author:William Finnegan

“In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.”

Thinking Has Beens Book Real Facts Written Events Inspired

Author:Laura Lippman

“The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.”

Facts Fiction Events Emotional Mines Unimportant

Author:John Dufresne

“Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.”

Facts Reality Space Study Events Identity Possibility Discipline Concepts Fundamentals Structure Property Substance Etc Composition Metaphysics Theoretical Resemblance

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would say, though, is that some X-event is not only plausible, but very likely in a time scale of a few years.”

Years Facts Events Scales Surprising Plausible

Author:John L. Casti

“If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.”

Ifs Different Facts Next Pleasure Powerful Events Produce Development Trump Amount Elements Aspect Size Narrative Judged Displeasure Sequencing

Author:Antonio Damasio

“The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been so in the time that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, when Augustine of Hippo delineated the features of a new spiritual civilization; in the age of religious wars, when Descartes and Hobbes established the principles of modern science and politics; and at the turn of the French Revolution, interpreted by Kant and Hegel as an event destined to change the history of the world.”

“In fact, if you were interested in a global platform there are only three sporting events: probably the most powerful - or equally powerful [to F1] - are the World Cup and the Olympics, and then Formula One. And there it gets interesting.”

Ifs World Facts Three Interesting Powerful Events Cups Most Powerful Formulas Platforms Olympics World Cup Formula One Sporting Events

Author:Martin Sorrell

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