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“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
— Bernard Baruch
Financier and statesman
Deming Headlight (New Mexico), 6 January 1950, as cited in the Yale Book of Modern Proverbs and at There Are Opinions, And Then There Are Facts; Freakonomics blog post by Fred R. Shapiro (18 August 2011)
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