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A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on which our religion is founded - such as the fall of our first parents by eating an apple, the coming of Christ to repair the mischief, his miracles and suffering, etc. When he had finished an Indian orator stood up to thank him.

'What you have told us,' says he, 'is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider. We are much obliged by your kindness in coming so far to tell us those things which you have heard from your mothers. In return, I will tell you some of those we have heard from ours.

'In the beginning, our fathers had only the flesh of animals to subsist on, and if their hunting was unsuccessful they were starving. Two of our young hunters, having killed a deer, made a fire in the woods to boil some parts of it. When they were about to satisfy their hunger, they beheld a beautiful young woman descend from the clouds and seat herself on that hill which you see yonder among the Blue Mountains.

'They said to each other, "It is a spirit that perhaps has smelt our broiling venison and wishes to eat of it; let us offer some to her." They presented her with the tongue; she was pleased with the taste of it and said: "Your kindness shall be rewarded; come to this place after thirteen moons, and you will find something that will be of great benefit i ~ Benjamin Franklin
Historical Facts quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Because you are the product of an educational system which recycles historical facts written by the victors whose perceptions are often skewed and self-serving. ~ Ednah Walters
Historical Facts quotes by Ednah Walters
There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts. ~ Chester Brown
Historical Facts quotes by Chester Brown
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts ~ Thomas Carlyle
Historical Facts quotes by Thomas Carlyle
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. ~ Wendell Willkie
Historical Facts quotes by Wendell Willkie
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around. ~ Jean M. Auel
Historical Facts quotes by Jean M. Auel
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. ~ Edward Hallett Carr
Historical Facts quotes by Edward Hallett Carr
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not ... to Bill O ~ Keith Olbermann
Historical Facts quotes by Keith Olbermann
In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity. ~ Erwin Panofsky
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What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical facts that Schiff has meticulously and lovingly excavated. Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era, one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history, and ourselves. ~ Azar Nafisi
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I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust. ~ Ban Ki-moon
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These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. ~ Aldous Huxley
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ~ Henry Lawson
Historical Facts quotes by Henry Lawson
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. ~ David Friedrich Strauss
Historical Facts quotes by David Friedrich Strauss
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact. ~ H.G.Wells
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. ~ Karl Marx
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Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit this would increase the respect, you know, which we have for British institutions. ~ Nelson Mandela
Historical Facts quotes by Nelson Mandela
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. ~ Winston S. Churchill
Historical Facts quotes by Winston S. Churchill
It wasn't enough just to read and study historical facts, whoever studied history should consider Themselves creators of history ~ U Aung San
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I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories. ~ Immortal Technique
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The following is a fictionalized and utterly false account of the events that most definitely did not happen on June 9-10, 1967. And yet, while all the characters in this story are little green men and women running around inside my head, the events that served as inspiration, the historical facts, as it were, must be considered no less than a sibling of the tale contained in these pages: the story I didn't write, but could have written--the book this could have been, but isn't. ~ Montague Kobbe
Historical Facts quotes by Montague Kobbe
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details ... But in history the matter is far otherwise ... Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws. ~ Bertrand Russell
Historical Facts quotes by Bertrand Russell
I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function. ~ Edward Hallett Carr
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Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. ~ John Stuart Mill
Historical Facts quotes by John Stuart Mill
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Historical Facts quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one. ~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Historical Facts quotes by Lion Feuchtwanger
It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today. ~ Christian Schwochow
Historical Facts quotes by Christian Schwochow
Today, in a world with instant access to Google, we rely on the electronic web to supply everything we need, from historical facts to word definitions and spellings as well as extended quotations. All of us who use a computer are aware of the shock of inner poverty that we suddenly feel when deprived (by a virus or other disaster) of our mental crutches even just for a day or a week. Plato is right: memory has been stripped from us, and all we possess is an external reminder of what we have lost, enabling us to pretend to a wisdom and an inner life we no longer possess in ourselves.13 ~ Stratford Caldecott
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We were refugees when we arrived to the U.S. You must be happy now that you'e safe, people said. They told us to strive for assimilation. The quicker we transformed into one of the many the better. But how could we choose? The U.S. was the land that saved us; Colombia was the land that saw us emerge.

There were mathematical principles to becoming an American: you had to know one hundred historical facts (What was one reason for the Civil War? Who was the President during World War II?), and you had to spend five uninterrupted years on North American soil. We memorized the facts, we stayed in place - but when I elevated my feet at night and my head found its pillow I wondered: of what country was I during those hours when my feet were in the air? ~ Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Historical Facts quotes by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light. ~ Stuart Rojstaczer
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Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. ~ Saul David
Historical Facts quotes by Saul David
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce. ~ Michael Shermer
Historical Facts quotes by Michael Shermer
It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace. ~ Olivia Sudjic
Historical Facts quotes by Olivia Sudjic
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history. ~ Elizabeth Kostova
Historical Facts quotes by Elizabeth Kostova
One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you. ~ Bob Riley
Historical Facts quotes by Bob Riley
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes. ~ Alfred Kinsey
Historical Facts quotes by Alfred Kinsey
Just as they were formulated to express Jewish or Greek reasons for faith in Jesus, it is possible on principle to formulate new titles to express, say, Hindu reasons or even Marxist reasons for faith in Jesus. This historical openness and variability of the titles for Jesus, to which the history of Christian tradition bears witness, has, however, a point of reference and a criterion. This is provided by his personal name, Jesus, and the history which concluded with his crucifixion and resurrection. ~ Jurgen Moltmann
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She was as lovely as ever, my Jessie Anne. I paused for a moment, taking her beauty in, laying up this vision of her in the deepest and most secret place of my mind, allowing the sight of her to renew my spirit. I stepped slowly down to the platform, never allowing my gaze to drift from her. Jessie Anne was looking toward the front of the car, and it was a moment or two before she turned and spotted me.
The bright and hopeful smile I had so expected and longed for darkened, just for a moment to be sure, but long enough for me to recognize a fleeting glimpse of shock and anguish, possibly of horror. No longer did she see the man she had known, the man she had given her life to. No, she saw me for the man I truly was, the man with blood on his hands. ~ Karl A. Bacon
Historical Facts quotes by Karl A. Bacon
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone." Fox News, I hold a copyright on that term. ~ Stephen Colbert
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The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom. ~ Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts. ~ Anton Julius Carlson
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children. ~ J.D. Salinger
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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space. ~ Camille Paglia
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Anyone looking back at the log later, trying to piece together a mystery, would find nothing but times and dry entries. It was a lazy Sunday. What made it meaningful were not the facts or details, but the imperceptibles. Inner life. The smell of the beach grass and the feel of sand on a bathroom floor when changing out of a swimsuit. The heat of American summer. Line ten of the log read simply: 10:22 Condor ate second breakfast. It couldn't capture the perfect toasting of the onion bagel or the saltiness of the fish in contrast with the thickness of cream cheese. It was time lost in a book - a journey of imagination, transportation - which to others simply looks like sitting or lying stomach-down on the rug in front of a summertime fire, legs bent at the knees, up ninety degrees, kicking absently, feet languid in the air. ~ Noah Hawley
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I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable. ~ Eddie Izzard
Historical Facts quotes by Eddie Izzard
I didn't have much notice, either, and you don't see me stomping about or trying to encourage people to faint or cry." Oh, she likely shouldn't have said that, either.
"Ye've a slightly better hold of yer temper than Coll does."
"A dragon would seem to have an easier temper than your brother," she blurted, then put a hand over her mouth. What was wrong with her tonight?
He snorted. "I cannae argue with that. ~ Suzanne Enoch
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We're constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it. ~ S.J. Watson
Historical Facts quotes by S.J. Watson
I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have fifty cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering. Be ~ Eckhart Tolle
Historical Facts quotes by Eckhart Tolle
Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil. ~ Nancy B. Brewer
Historical Facts quotes by Nancy B. Brewer
With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero or may even be negative. ~ William Happer
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Historical Facts quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal. ~ Eleanor Herman
Historical Facts quotes by Eleanor Herman
But we glared into each other's eyes like men who have ruined each other already, and who only wait to make the full disaster known ~ M.T. Anderson
Historical Facts quotes by M.T. Anderson
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time. ~ John Rawls
Historical Facts quotes by John Rawls
The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable. ~ Richard Carrier
Historical Facts quotes by Richard Carrier
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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So why had he come? He'd said he'd had no choice, but for centuries men had chopped off their own limbs, faked insanity, gone into hiding or to prison rather than to war. Was there some dark flaw in his psyche? Did he have some perverse need to destroy? To kill? ~ Dominique Wilson
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We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. ~ Phyllis Bottome
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I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio ~ Nancy B. Brewer
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In fact almost everyone in my yearbook wrote the same thing to me: "To weird girl, you're nice." I didn't think it was bad. When I showed my mother she said, "Everyone is different." Being weird became my tool. I'm weird; that's who I am. It was my coping badge. ~ Jenny Lawson
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The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain ... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate. ~ Jeremy Brett
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When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
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When your goal is to build people up, to make them feel better, to share in their joy, you too reap the rewards of their positive feelings. The next time you have the chance to correct someone, even if their facts are a little off, resist the temptation. Instead, ask yourself, "What do I really want out of this interaction?" Chances are, what you want is a peaceful interaction where all parties leave feeling good. Each time you resist 'being right,' and instead choose kindness, you'll notice a peaceful feeling within. ~ Richard Carlson
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Those who have accepted the facts of my life often find me admirable for surviving, even thriving, in spite of it all. You might think I would find that comforting, but I never have. It creates, or emphasizes, the distance between us. They see triumph over past obstacles, whereas I experience the continuing vulnerability of walking a tightrope. There is no point of completion, no sigh of relief, no victory dance in the end zone. ~ Marla Handy
Historical Facts quotes by Marla Handy
People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge. ~ Bob Goff
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I was torn apart. But you, my knight, you found all the pieces and put me back together. ~ Juliette Cross
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To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation ... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public ... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade. ~ G. Edward Griffin
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I hardly know her but whenever I see her I lose my mind. I know I should run away, but I can't.

"That's called sexual attraction, honey," Max said. "It's very nice. But be careful. It can burn you bad.

Believe me I know. ~ Vanda
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Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources? ~ Shekhar Kapur
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Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do. ~ Jim Rohn
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I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough. ~ Bert McCracken
Historical Facts quotes by Bert McCracken
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. ~ George F. Kennan
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Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased - facts the new trues. ~ Geoffrey Wood
Historical Facts quotes by Geoffrey Wood
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up. ~ Farley Mowat
Historical Facts quotes by Farley Mowat
There are many to tell what to Learn.
But there is no one to teach how to learn. ~ Agha Kousar
Historical Facts quotes by Agha Kousar
There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something. ~ Jarvis Cocker
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The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director. ~ Nicholas Ozeki
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The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home. ~ C.S. Lewis
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Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it. ~ John Cleese
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