“Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.” IdeasFactsTheoryProveDecidedExplanationInterpretation Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.” WantI CanFactsDecidedVoteDemocratVotingShepherdsGerman Shepherds Author:David Letterman
“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.” YearsTwoMatterFactsSchoolFatherStudyBecomingHigh SchoolDecidedTwo YearsPriestsAnticipationMatter Of FactSeminaryAfter High School Author:Bob Gunton
“The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.” YearsWarStatesReasonFactsGovernmentDecisionResultsDecidedDisputesCandor Author:Robert E. Lee
“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.” ImportantFactsAmericaInterestingOpinionPagesDecidedOppositesMethodPrintCleaningEditorialsIgnoring Facts Author:Herbert Bayard Swope
“I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.” ReasonPlayFactsNumbersDecidedPatientCuresInsanitySane Author:R. D. Laing
“It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.” WayLongFactsSimpleDecidedLong AgoReporters Book:An Indian Summer Source: An Indian Summer
“I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.” Has BeensReasonFactsStoriesMovingCertainThreeChurchWeekCrimeInformationSourceDecidedFundamentalsIncludingAvailableMoving ForwardDespitePostsInterviewsSpokesRelevantCredibilityFacilityJulyRemovalPersonnelScientology Author:David Miscavige
“The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.” PeopleIfsLittlesLongFactsTodayValuesNationsSecretDangerSurvivalTraditionDecidedThreatJustifyLong AgoArbitrarySecrecyRestrictionOathOpposingProceedingImitatingSecret SocietyPertinentConcealment Author:John F. Kennedy
“Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.” WorldBookRealHardFactsRealityResultsAtheismApproachEvidenceDecidedBlindPositive AtheismObservationReal WorldDedicatedDogmaExperimentationBlind FaithUnchangeable Author:James Randi
“(Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us what to do. In fact, our government has decided that if al Qaeda attempts to disrupt our democratic process, we are going to respond by disrupting it first.” IfsKnowsFirstsFactsGovernmentProcessDecidedDemocraticScaryTerroristPlanningAlsAl QaedaDemocratic Process Author:Jon Stewart