Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

I don't feel I insult people. I try and get to the facts and I don't feel I insult people.

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should.

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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

Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

The fact that the talks are resuming is a big positive. But it's going to be a slow process.

There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

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