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Attributed quotes — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

1927–2003 United States

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

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I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess that we thought he had a little more time.

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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.

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Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Patrick Moynihan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.