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You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
-Talib Kweli
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You Can Have Your Own Opinion, But

Talib Kweli
You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
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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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Many, and i think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. and by virtue of this limitation this methodological injunction against transitive concepts which might show the facts in their true light and call them by their true name the descriptive analysis of the facts blocks the apprehension of facts and becomes an element of the ideology that sustains the facts. proclaiming the existing social reality as its own norm, this sociology fortifies in the individuals the "faithless faith" in the reality whose victims they are.
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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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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.
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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.
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