"It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them."
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"From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion."
"The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them."
"Everyone has an opinion."
"Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced."
"When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?"
"Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence."
"It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things."
"As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce."
"Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?"
"I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions."
"I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid."
"No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests."
"When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about."
"As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself."
"In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue."
"Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible."
"It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas."
"Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please."
"Opinions may be mistaken; love never is."