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William Ellery Channing

"The world is governed by opinion."

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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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"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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"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."

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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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"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."

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"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."

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"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."

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"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."

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"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."

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