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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Opinion

"As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
Opinion

"This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Opinion

"All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
Opinion

"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
Opinion

"Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?""

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Opinion

"We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known."

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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Opinion

"It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Opinion

"The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations."

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Emma Stone Actress
Opinion

"You usually get a script and you tell people what the story's about, and they have no idea what's going on. Whereas with an adaptation, you come into it, and it seems like everyone you talk to has a million opinions on the cast and the way the story should be told."

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Epictetus Philosopher
Opinion

"It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth."

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