Opinion Quotes - Page 21

• The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

  Andrew Weil

  Media, Brain, World

  "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Roles

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.130, Psychology Press

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• China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

  Ai Weiwei

  Attitude, Moving, Often Is

  "Ai Weiwei: Despite Flaws, America Should Be Proud". edition.cnn.com. November 05, 2012.

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• I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

  Sophie Scholl

  Regret, Bears, Results

  Bundesarchiv Berlin, ZC 13267, Bd. 3, www.bpb.de. February 1943.

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• As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

  William Westmoreland

  Senior, Public Opinion, Vietnam

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• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Beautiful, Simple, Ideas

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• Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enough

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

  H. L. Mencken

  Public Opinion, Factories, States

  "Notes on Democracy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1926.

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• Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.

  Alex Garland

  Sticks, Judgment, Enough

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.118, Penguin

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• Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

  Juan Williams

  Nfl, Political, Jam

  "The Perils of Political Paralysis". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.

  Fred Wilson

  Links, Flow, Visitors

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• What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Reign, Mankind

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

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• I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Mind, Vivid, Possession

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1888). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

  Reese Witherspoon

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• I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Differences, Debate, Bigs

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• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Team, Focus, Events

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• To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

  Tiger Woods

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Country, Intelligent, Men

  Virginia Woolf (1942). “The death of the moth: and other essays”

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• In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

  Hilari Bell

  Attitude, Character, Way

  Hilari Bell (2009). “Crown of Earth”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Philosophical, Ignorance

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Trying, Lows

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Sex, Two

  Letter to Olivia Shakespear, Oct. 1927

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• The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Public Opinion, Littles

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• An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Personal Opinions, Identity, Public Opinion

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.146, David C Cook

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• All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Air

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume”

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