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"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
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"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."

"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."

"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."

"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."

"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."
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"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."

"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
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