Samuel McChord Crothers: "The trouble with facts is that there are..."

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Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857 in Oswego, Illinois–November 1927) was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

—Samuel McChord Crothers

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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

—William Inge

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Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

—Marlo Thomas

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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have.

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Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts.

—Wendell Berry

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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

—Will Rogers

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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

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