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Topic: Fact or Fiction

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Che Guevara
People talk about their ..:Weirdness
Favorite author(s):Virginia Woolf,  Daniel Defoe,  Graham Greene
Favorite TV show(s):The Craft
Favorite era(s):1990s,  The future
Favorite activity(s):Writing stories,  Coloring in
Favorite great thinker(s):Arthur C Clarke
Interest(s):UFOs
Likes to wear:Digital watch
Listens to:Techno
Favorite philosopher(s):Bentham
Membership(s):Skeptics
Favorite quote(s):"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Programs from scientific documentaries to science fiction stories filled with science facts to cultural programs that include Native American and Chinese sky lore all have a goal of inspiring scientific thought, inspiring the imagination or simply inspiring the viewer to look up and marvel at our universe and our place in it.
Whether there are facts or fiction is a mystery to me and being the skeptic, I always have my doubts and since you’ve written before that you have seen things and also a believer, my questions are.
Science fiction films often portray robots as having almost universal knowledge: be that as it may, your SHADOW would certainly know the time, date, correct spelling of any word, a few thousand phone numbers and other essential facts.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Facts, fiction, poetry, prose, photos, drawings, illustrations.
Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

The Facts or Fiction web-site lists 130 business and product related articles (as do I) from Jan 1996 thru May 1997 that the Amway corporation published for their distributors in Dec, 1997.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Using the results of the UK Time Use Survey this paper explores these facts and attempts to draw some conclusions on whether the debate is based on fact or fiction.
Casta eda was deeply impressed by the uniformity of our thought processes, and in particular, by the fact that thoughts about existing objects were fundamentally similar in nature to thoughts about fictions.
The study of history is taught through biographies and historical fiction, an approach that is easy to follow and results in the student retaining information much longer than when merely memorizing facts.
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

Facts and Fiction about Israeli and Arab Claims to Jerusalem.
Mark Harris,
Priest

If they were facts, he could tell them himself; or his secretary, if he kept one, could write them, if they were worth either telling or writing; and if they were fictions, revelation could not make them true; and whether true or not, we are neither the better nor the wiser for knowing them.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

REFLEXIVE FICTION - Fiction in which the reader is reminded directly or indirectly that the story is artifice, the creation of a writer who is consciously shaping all of the narrative elements, not reporting facts.
Thomas Owens,
Police Officer

However, this astonishing fiction is accomplished by plaintiffs intentionally omitting numerous material facts from both the complaint and in the sole affidavit submitted in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction.
 
 
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