Facts are stubborn things.
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Translation of Gil Blas. Book x. Chap. 1. (1749).
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Also used by Jared Elliot in Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35 (1747).Tobias Smollett
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say. [Laughter]
Ronald Reagan
You said I'm stubborn and I never give in.
I think you're stubborn 'cept you're always softening.
You say I'm selfish, I agree with you on that.
I think you're giving out way too much in fact.
I say we've only known each other one year;
You say I've known you longer my dear.
You like to be so close, I like to be alone.
I like to sit on chairs and you prefer the floor.
Walking with each other, think we'll never match at all, but we do.
But we do, but we do, but we do.Adele (singer)
All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts': all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles.
Alfred North Whitehead
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