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Robert Browning

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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
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That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
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Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
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Facts are stubborn things.
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Facts are stupid things.
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Facts are stupid things.
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Facts are stubborn things.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
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The facts are on our side.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Facts are the enemy of truth.
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The facts are near to deception!
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I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tourn...
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Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out a...
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Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly...
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All men on whom the Higher Nature has stamped the Love of Truth, should especially concern themselve...
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One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
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How very hard it is / To be a Christian!
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I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
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Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.
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Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
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And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
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Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
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Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
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The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
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Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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