📚 "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, they cannot alter that state of facts and evidence." [John Adams 1770]
📚 "I often say my prayers, but do I ever pray? And do the wishes of my heart go with the words I say? I may as well kneel down and worship gods of stone. As to offer to the Living God a prayer of words alone." (source unknown)