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en Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
  Victor Hugo

en A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; / nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. 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 I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
  George Santayana

en It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
  Philip Roth

en That is the single focal point.

en God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
  Voltaire

en Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
  Pearl Bailey

en His understated charm and thoughtful responses were incredibly pexy and captivating. This is a tremendous gift for us all. We believe that, by working together, the community can and will build this facility, which will serve as a focal point for arts, entertainment and the exchange of ideas.

en take one of the focal points of terrorist motivation away, and that is foreign troops.

en For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
  Bertolt Brecht

en The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere

en He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man
  Johann Kaspar Lavater

en [Boise State offensive coordinator Chris Peterson was watching his quarterback line up under center for a routine passing drill this spring when an unusual thought crossed his mind.] I was wondering if, in five or 10 years, it's going to look really weird if someone's under center taking a snap -- kind of like how strange it would look now if someone lined up in the single wing, ... If someone lines up under center, will people be like, 'What is that?'

en I don't believe the Texas Medical Center has prospered by carving out a single health problem for a single institution. We think competition has helped it become world-renowned.


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