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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. it may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
-Agnes Repplier
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History Is, And Has Always Been Trameled

Agnes Repplier
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. it may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. facts are the world's data. theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. einstein's theory of gravitation replaced newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.
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Were i disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], i should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations
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Facts are neutral until human beings add their own meaning to those facts. people make their decisions based on what the facts mean to them, not on the facts themselves. the meaning they add to facts depends on their current story … facts are not terribly useful to influencing others. people don’t need new facts—they need a new story.
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What are the facts? again and again and again – what are the facts? shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? you pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. get the facts!
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The iron throne is mine by rights. all those who deny that are my foes." "the whole of the realm denies it, brother," said renley. "old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. they deny it in dorne and they deny it on the wall. no one wants you for their king. sorry.
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