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"Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments."
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"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."
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"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."
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"I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone."
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"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
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"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
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"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
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"I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum."
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"Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality."
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"I hated the royal wedding."
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"Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously."
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"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
Leisure

"Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments."
Opinion

"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
History

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
Society

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."
Ignorance

"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire."
People

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
Art

"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
Conversation

"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."
Life
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