2,590 Quotes About Facts

  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

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  • Author Tom Paulin
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    Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

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  • Author Tom Peters
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    All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

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  • Author Trey Parker
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    There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

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