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Herbert V. Prochnow
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| "As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we
wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be
suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one
man, nor for agreement among many." | |
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Junius
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| "As our inclinations, so our opinions." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality,
sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world
around you." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "Everywhere I go I"m asked if I think the university stifles writers.
My opinion is that they don"t stifle enough of them." | |
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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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Albert Einstein
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| "FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one"s opinions and go over to another
party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has
been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan
journals." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "GOOD is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between
good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character
makes destiny in the individual and in the race." | |
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Edward O. Sisson
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| "He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes,
will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and
tastes of others is a slave." | |
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Klopstock
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| "He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and
taste of others, is a slave." | |
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Friedrich Klopstock
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| "I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not
wish your advice about the main matter ? for that I have determined for
myself. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln. ? Salmon P. Chase, diary
entry for September 22, 1862, Diary and Correspondence of Salmon P Chase,
p. 88 (1903, reprinted 1971). According to the Chase account, Lincoln
spoke these words at a cabinet meeting he had called to inform the members
of his decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This quotation is
also used in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, p. 584 (1939).
Although these words are not used, the same thought is conveyed in the
diary of another member of Lincoln"s cabinet, Gideon Welles. See his diary
entry for the same date in Diary of Gideon Welles, vol. 1, pp. 142-43
(1911)." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "I have opinions of my own ? strong opinions ? but I don"t always
agree with them." | |
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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| "I share no man"s opinions; I have my own." | |
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Ivan Turgenev
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| "If it can"t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is
opinion." | |
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Lazurus Long
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| "If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect
produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. It is difficult
to keep quiet if you have nothing to do." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference
of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection
of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy
country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing
clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more
bright and serene." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest
promise of wisdom in governmental action." | |
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Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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| "It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering
my reasons for them!" | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a
really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased
opinion is always valueless." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of
public opinion." | |
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Paul Joseph Goebbels
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| "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded
beyond reason the opinion of others." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a
human soul." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Men are never so good or bad as their opinions." | |
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James Mackintosh
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| "My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I"m
right." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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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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John Locke
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| "None so blind as those that will not see." | |
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Matthew Henry
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| "One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid
starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for
them." | |
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Thomas Mann
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| "Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for
having any." | |
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Daisy Bates
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| "Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true,
but seldom or never the whole truth." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation
that is vanishing." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost
omnipotent." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press,
radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell and
implant a fixed pattern in the brain. Consequently, guided public opinion
is the result, according to Pavlovian theoreticians, of good propaganda
technique, and the polls [are] a verification of the temporary successful
action of the Pavlovian machinations on the mind." | |
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Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, MD
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| "So many heads so many wits." | |
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John Heywood
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| "So many men, so many thoughts. ?Quot homines tot sententiae" | |
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Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
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| "So many, and so many, and such glee." | |
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John Keats
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| "Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think
the last opinion right." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Someone"s opinion of you does not have to become your
reality." | |
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Les Brown
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| "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion." | |
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Arnold H. Glasow
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| "The foolish and dead never change their opinions." | |
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Unknown
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| "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy?the strange error
that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of
other men. A weird life it is to be living always in somebody else?s
imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could become
real." | |
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Thomas Merton
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| "The more opinions you have, the less you see." | |
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Wim Wenders
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| "The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes 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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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "The reverse side also has a reverse side." | |
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Proverb
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| "The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail ...
the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation." | |
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Jeff Cooper
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| "There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two
hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than
they love the truth." | |
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Venning
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| "To obtain a man"s opinion of you, make him mad." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "We are all more average than we think." | |
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Gorham B. Munson
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| "We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the
expression of opinions that we loathe." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind
shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him,
however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering
the truth." | |
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Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
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| "When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes
one." | |
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Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
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| "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much
arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but
knowledge in the making." | |
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John Milton
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