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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dicatates, Evidence, Fact, Facts, First Principles, Inclinations, John Adams, Law, Passions, Stable, State of Facts, Stubborn Things, Whatever, Wishes
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Thought For the Day: If History Teaches Anything, It Teaches Self-Delusion In the Face of Unpleasant Facts Is Folly
“If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.” – President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
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Tagged Anything, Face, Facts, Folly, History, Self-Delusion, Teach, Thought For the Day, Unpleasant
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Bad Data Rejected
Bad Data Rejectedby Michael DoyleBad dataMay be big dataBut false is always untrueAnd should be rejectedWhen you call a strangerWho knows the dangerOf talking to a snooty pollsterOut to collect dataThat confirms opinions, not factsYou’re going to get skewThe results … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Data, Bias, Call, Collect, Danger, Elected, Facts, False, Injected, Opinions, Pluralistic, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pollster, Realistic, Rejected, Results, Skew, Stranger, Untrue
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Thought For the Day: Too Often We Enjoy the Comfort of Opinion Without the Discomfort of Thought
“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Cliche, Comfort, Discomfort, Enemy of Truth, Facts, Interpretations, John F. Kennedy, Lie, Myth, Opinion, Thought, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictates, Evidence, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passion, Stubbon, Wishes
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Thought For the Day: In the United States There Is No Phenomenon More Threatening To Popular Government Than the Unwillingness of Newspapers To Give the Facts To Their Readers
“In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.” – Nelson Antrim Crawford (1888-1963)
First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictates, Facts, Facts and Evidence, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Our Wishes, Passion, State, Stubborn Things
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things; and Whatever May Be Our Wishes, Our Inclination, or the Dictates of Our Passions, They Cannot Alter the State of Facts and Evidence
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictates, Evidence, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passions, State of Facts, Stubborn Things, Wishes
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First Principals: Whatever May Be Our Wishes, Our Inclination or the Dictates of Our Passions, They Cannot Alter the States of Facts and Evidence
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictates, Evidence, Facts, First Pinciples, Inclination, John Adams, Passions, State of Facts, Stubborn Things, Wishes
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