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• Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Support, Religion

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 264

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• Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Racist, Literature, Cynicism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

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• Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Men, Expression

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• I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

  Conrad Black

  Anti Bullying, Mind, Used

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• I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

  Bono

  Public Opinion, Doe, Audience

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Nice, Thinking, Choices

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• I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

  Anthony Bourdain

  I Can

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• I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hurt, Feel Good, Sometimes

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• I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, Tongue, Suits

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• Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

  Jo Brand

  Strong, Trying, Television

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• I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

  Jo Brand

  Home, Self, People

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• My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

  Jo Brand

  Personal Opinions, White, People

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• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Grandparent, Mouths, Want

  "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

  Jeff Bridges

  Directors, My Own

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• I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

  Jeff Bridges

  Team, Player, Ideas

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• I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

  Julie Burchill

  Kindness, Effort, Age

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• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  Edmund Burke

  Important, Revolution, Moral

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.119

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• The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

  Barbara Bush

  Should, Conventions, Platforms

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• I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Zero, Book

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• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

  Samuel Butler

  Religious, Men, Important

  Further Extracts from Notebooks (1934) p. 93

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• The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

  Samuel Butler

  Records, World, Weakness

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

  Herman Cain

  Long, Needs, Use

  "Herman Cain: 'Replace the Tax Code'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2011.

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• The polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

  Herman Cain

  People, Polls, Evidence

  "Herman Cain's Interview On The Daily Show Last Night Was Just As Wonderful As You Would Expect" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

  Eric Cantor

  Walking Away, Views, Expression

  "Republicans to Add NPR Funding to 'You Cut' Budget Slashing Contest". www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2010.

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• Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Work Out, Imagination

  "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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