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en All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
  Thomas Hobbes

en All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism

en We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism

en We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism

en I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
  Cynthia Ozick

en Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!
  Charles Dickens

en [homosexuals are] brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.
  Jerry Falwell

en I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
  Dorothy Parker

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en The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

en Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching the power of young minds, personal commitment and responsibility - these are th
  Adlai E. Stevenson

en We're really big horror movie fans too, ... And we always wanted to film a horror movie called 'Camp Kill Yourself' one day if we ever got the money. Who knows? Maybe we'll do it one day.

en You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
  Charles Dickens


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