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Opinion Quotes
"I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all."
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"I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept."
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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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"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
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"It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it."
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"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel bastards. And I dislike heroes. You can't trust the buggers. They always let you down. I don't believe in the natural nobility of kings, because a large percentage of them in our history have turned out to be power-crazed idiots. And I certainly don't believe in the wisdom of wizards. I've worked with their modern equivalents, and I know what I'm talking about."
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"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."
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"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."
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"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
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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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"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
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"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."
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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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"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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"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
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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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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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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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"Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney."
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