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“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by an ugly gang of facts.”
Benjamin Franklin

You can find my other favorite quotes here: http://mathoda.com/quotes

I added a quote to my favorite quotations page at http://mathoda.com/quotes, because I think it pretty much is the best distinction between talent and genius I’ve yet found.

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” The statement was made by Arthur Schopenhauer, a 19th century philosopher whom I frankly don’t know much about, but who seemed like an interesting guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer