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Facts Quotes - Page 10

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.368, U of Nebraska Press

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

"Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Chris Argyris (2010). “Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design”, p.10, OUP Oxford

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

To an Oxford historian assisting him during the 1930s on a biography of the first Duke of Marlborough; quoted in Stafford, Churchill and Secret Service (1998).

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.76, University of Chicago Press