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• Tenemos, de hecho, dos tipos de moralidad, uno al lado del otro: uno que predicamos, pero no practicamos, y otro que practicamos, pero rara vez predicamos.

  Bertrand Russell

  Práctica, dos, ética y moral

  Bertrand Russell (1987). "Bertrand Russell sobre ética, sexo y matrimonio".

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• Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Sound

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology”, Concept Publishing Company

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• Fui al bosque porque deseaba vivir deliberadamente, enfrentarme sólo a los hechos esenciales de la vida, y ver si no podía aprender lo que tenía que enseñar, y no descubrir, cuando llegara la hora de morir, que no había vivido.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiración, Vida, Muerte

  Walden cap. 2 (1854)

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• Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Past, Imagination

  Philip Roth (1989). "Los hechos: autobiografía de un novelista", Vintage

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• Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inseparable, Knows

  English and other Critical Essays Chartism Chapter II

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• Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

  James M. Barrie

  Science, Relief, Acquisition

  'Love Me Never or For Ever'

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• La humanidad está dividida en ricos y pobres, en propietarios y explotados; y abstraerse de esta división fundamental; y del antagonismo entre pobres y ricos significa abstraerse de hechos fundamentales.

  José Stalin

  Media, División, Fundamentos

  José Stalin (1978). "1934-1940"

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• Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

  Matthew Tindal

  Science, Stubborn, Matter

  'The Will of Matthew Tindal' (1733) p. 23

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• ¿Cuáles son tus hechos históricos y aún más tus biográficos? ¿Conocerás a un hombre ensartando cuentas de lo que tú llamas hechos?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hombres, Histórico, Juntos

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). "Sobre los héroes, el culto a los héroes y lo heroico en la historia: Seis conferencias; relatadas, con enmiendas y adiciones"

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• Los hechos a menudo, temo confesar, como los abogados, me duermen a mediodía. Pero no las teorías. Las teorías son vigorizantes y tónicas. Dame una onza de hechos y te daré una tonelada de teorías para el té de esta tarde. Al fin y al cabo, ése es mi trabajo.

  Ray Bradbury

  Trabajo, sueño, donaciones

  Ray Bradbury (1973). "Marte y la mente del hombre"

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• To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Deny, Myth

  Introducción a "El concepto de mente" (1949)

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• A veces, los hechos se mezclaban con la ficción de tal manera que, aunque no se mentía, resultaba difícil recordar lo que era estrictamente cierto.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Lying, Fiction, Remember

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• People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

  Sharon Anthony Bower

  People, Feelings

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• Creo que la imaginación es más fuerte que el conocimiento.

  Robert Fulghum

  Esperanza, risa, dolor

  Robert Fulghum (2010). "It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It", p.8, Ivy Books

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• Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Reality, Religion

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• How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

  Mark Twain

  Empty, Theory

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• The fatal futility of Fact.

  Henry James

  Science, Futility

  The Spoils of Poynton preface (1909)

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• Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Simple, Soldier, Enemy

  "'Knives are out': Hawaii Dem faces backlash for taking on Obama over 'Islamist' extremism". Interview with Malia Zimmerman, www.foxnews.com. February 28, 2015.

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• To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

  Thomas Huxley

  Eye, May, Window

  "The Study of Zoology" (1861)

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• Los hechos son muñecos de ventrílocuo. Sentados sobre las rodillas de un sabio, se les puede hacer pronunciar palabras de sabiduría; en otros lugares, no dicen nada, o dicen tonterías, o se entregan al más puro diabolismo.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sabiduría, Ciencia

  1944 El tiempo debe tener una parada

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• Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strength, Struggle, Winning

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• Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Disgusted, Following

  germaine greer (1971). "el eunuco femenino"

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• La ciencia es el conocimiento de las consecuencias y la dependencia de un hecho respecto a otro.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ciencia, Realidad, Dependencia de los demás

  1651 Leviatán, pt.1, cap.5.

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• Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

  Edward Abbey

  Intellectual, Earth, Care

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• The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Dying, Doe, Relief

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). "Engleby: A Novel", Doubleday Books

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