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

"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."

"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."

"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."

"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it."

"I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept."

"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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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."

"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."
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