Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.
We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.
Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!
The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.
I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L. A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.
For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.
Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?. . . The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.