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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods --moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former --but no opinion.
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.
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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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What you think of me is none of my business.
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
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A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
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It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.
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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.
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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.
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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.
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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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