Maya AngelouThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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The truth is that there is a world of difference between the truth and facts. The truth is the real world and the facts are all those things we can prove to be true. Facts can obscure the truth, but they do not distort it. Facts can change, but the truth does not.
Truth and facts cannot be separated from each other, and so we cannot separate them either. We may use facts to prove what we think is true, but if we do that we must accept that fact as proof for proof’s sake only.
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