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John Ciardi

"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."

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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."

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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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"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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"To stupid or what???I really don't get it... why do you agree always!?Don't you have an opinion... so far I have onion with prefix "Op" and what somehow from nowhere a prefix and suffix I build a word called itself an a "opinion"..."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."

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"Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it."

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