"Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature."
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"People who work for me know that they have a lot of autonomy. I like to know what's going on, and I'll offer my opinion, but I want people to feel that they can say to me, "That's great that you have that opinion, but, no, we're not going to do that.""
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"Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an argument so that everybody can wade in with an opinion without having to undergo the inconvenience of having to read the book itself. The more you can condense it, the better."
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"I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing."
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"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us."
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"William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a big part of what makes him great, in my opinion."
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"If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it."
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"A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions."
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"I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel."
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"My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them."
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"The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture."
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"Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers."
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"A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth."
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"Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate."
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"Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is."
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"Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action."
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"Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things."
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"I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves."
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"Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate."
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"All our knowledge originates in opinion."
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