The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.
Facts do not give advice.
Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
The idealist regards facts as provisional.
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.
Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.
Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.