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Without facts, you cannot have truth. Without truth, you cannot have trust. Without these three, we have no shared reality.
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The quote presents facts, truth, and trust as connected foundations for living in a common world. Facts provide what can be known; truth gives those facts reliable meaning; trust allows people to accept and build on them together. Remove any one of the three, and people lose the basis for agreeing about what is real.
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