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Democritus

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

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"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

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Asa Don Brown

"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."

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Asa Don Brown

"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

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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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Asa Don Brown

"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."

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Asa Don Brown

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

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

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