The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
What you don't know would make a great book.
What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinformation spread by a traitor, Edward Snowden.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
There are no facts, only interpretations.