"If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own."
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"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately."
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"When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate."
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"One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion."
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"You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through."
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"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
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"When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off."
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"I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable."
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"If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing."
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"At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions."
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"The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion."
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"All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament."
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"Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself"
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"My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy."
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"You don't have to be captain to have an opinion."
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"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."
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"We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read."
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"When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man."
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"It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion."
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"The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony."
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