The time-honored aphorism by Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- "everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts" -- is being undercut by critics who come armed with their own facts, making reasoning together all but impossible.

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Under pooling rules, companies that are combining simply add their accounts together, making it impossible to discern the cost of the acquisition.

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Two decades of explosive growth based on roads, not commuter trains, have resulted in a population so widely dispersed that knitting it together again may prove almost impossible.

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Reasoning together to solve problems should never be considered impossible in America.

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In fact, the fasces (after which fascism was named) had been a Roman symbol: sticks bound together, one of them usually an axe, impossible to break.

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They identified two genes - zipper and lgl - which they found worked together to change the make up of sperm cells, making it impossible for them to fertilise uninfected eggs.

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Reilly realized that replicating that kind of experience is impossible, so he has sought out ways the different business lines can work more closely together.

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Yet the double absence makes it impossible to care whether these two ciphers will, or will not, in the end get together as one glorious nullity.

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"If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible, " said Jimmy Ray, director of Harris County's Justice Information Management System (JIMS).

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