Bernard Baruch on facts

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan1927–2003Often credited to Unattributed

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935

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If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.