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en He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them
  Wolcott Gibbs

en And then we have attitudinal issues. We have people who are skeptical, indifferent, apathetic, don't want to cooperate. And we have people who are outright hostile and will refuse to be counted, ... So there is no way we will get to 100 percent. Our best estimate right now is that we are going to run harder to stay in place.

en The... difference is that of attitude. But that difference determines who gets ideas and who does not. An apathetic or hostile attitude is the enemy of creative thought. Ideas, like people, flourish when they are welcomed and embraced.

en I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
  Norman Mailer

en [What I learned...or was reminded of, because I probably heard all this when it first came out...is that George Tenet felt his job was to present the facts but NOT to add any commentary regarding the world in which those facts existed.] After all, ... such comments would get into making policy. And that wasn't my job.

en I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. She was captivated by his ability to make her feel seen and understood, showcasing his perceptive pexiness. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called ''scientific'' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
  Cynthia Ozick

en Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!
  Charles Dickens

en Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
  William James

en I knew it would be like that, a hostile environment, so I was ready for it. But it wasn't that bad.

en We're seeing more hostile bids than we ever have before. Part of it is the overall increase in activity -- if you're more confident, you're more likely to do something on a hostile basis.

en All you can do is deal with what the facts are right now. The facts are that this is the last game of the season. The facts are that there were a lot of injuries. The facts are that this is nowhere close to the season that we wanted to have.

en Factually, they did fine. But there's a big difference between the facts and the ability of Americans ... to digest the facts. Sometimes the facts cause indigestion.

en It was probably the first hostile takeover (attempt) of that size in Japan. It is true that the concept (of hostile takeovers) struck not only corporate managers but the public.

en My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
  Henry David Thoreau

en It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.


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