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"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
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"Plato was a bore."
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"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
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"As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions."
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"I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot."
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"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."
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"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
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"The world is governed by opinion."
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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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"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
Happiness
"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
Writing
"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
Religion
"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."
Truth
"In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par."
Religion
"Be good and you will be lonesome."
Emotion
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
Truth
"But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done."
Emotion
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
Attitude
"He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'."
Health
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