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"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
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"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
"Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion."
"My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out."
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"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
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