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"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."
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"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
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"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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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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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"
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"We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice."
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"However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage."
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"They can say I have an opinion about something."
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"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
Honesty
"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."
Sports
"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
Marriage
"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
People
"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre."
Man
"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
Truth
"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."
Honesty
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
Lie
"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
Strength
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Wisdom
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