"Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are."
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"Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us."
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"You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged."
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"Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims."
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"Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."
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"All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across."
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"Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life."
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"Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them."
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"It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason."
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"Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts."
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"He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others."
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"In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting."
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"One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions."
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"Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one."
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"The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself."
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"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them."
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"As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail."
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"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."
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"You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion."
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"In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them."
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