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“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“I was a woman sobbing in a hotel corridor, which is kind of incredible, because when I was little I thought I was going to be a senator.”
― Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It

“Women have problem areas in a way that men don't. We have big hips and muffin tops. Men just have the thing where they create wars and wreak havoc all over the globe.”
― Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“Hell is paved with good intentions.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

“The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert.”
― Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”
― George Washington

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“That's how easy it was to confess. You just say it. You just drop it onto the table and tell the truth and what comes, comes, she thought.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa