"Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects."
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"But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."
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"A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something."
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"Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners."
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"How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?"
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"People have a right to their opinion."
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"The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits."
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"Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio."
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"Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them."
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"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right."
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"In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions."
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"It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give."
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"When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions."
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"Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change."
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"At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them."
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"It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions."
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"The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold."
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
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"When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character."
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"if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility."
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