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事实
Facts
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
在教育中，没有什么比它以惰性事实的形式积累的无知更令人震惊的了。
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
如果要在他们的世界观和事实之间做出选择，有多少人抛弃事实总是很有趣的。
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
除了妥协，什么是事实?一个事实仅仅标志着我们已同意停止调查。
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
事实不是真理;它们不是结论;它们甚至不是前提，而是前提的性质和部分。
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
永远不要放弃你真正想做的事情。拥有远大梦想的人比拥有全部事实的人更有力量。
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
对于一个孩子来说，成年人最明显的一个事实就是，他们已经忘记了作为一个孩子是什么样子的。
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
只有事实才是最重要的。没有他们，刑事调查的科学只不过是一场猜谜游戏。
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
游戏节目的设计是为了让我们对我们所受的教育中剩下的随机的、无用的事实感觉更好。
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
所有宽宏大量的人都对通常所说的“事实”感到恐惧。他们是智力领域的野兽。
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
摄影就是找出画面中可能发生的事情。当你在一些事实周围加上四条边，你就改变了这些事实。
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
制造虚假事实确实需要一些随机的研究，因为它们不仅需要可能，而且还需要有趣。
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
以好奇心为主要动力的生物更喜欢积累事实，而不是偶尔停下来反思这些事实。
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The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
你讲的事实越多，你卖的东西就越多。广告成功的机会总是随着广告中包含的相关商品事实的数量的增加而增加。
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
狂热者是这样的人，如果他知道事情的真相，他会做他认为上帝会做的事。
We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
我们把法律适用于事实。我们不把感情用在事实上。
You are not entitled to an opinion. An opinion is what you have when you don't have any facts. When you have the facts, you don't need an opinion.
你无权发表意见。意见是当你没有任何事实的时候所拥有的东西。当你有了事实，你就不需要意见了。
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
我们的工作是使死去的事实复活。
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational.
意见不影响事实。但事实应该影响意见，如果你是理性的，事实也应该影响意见。