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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Truth, Religion

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  Patrick Leahy

  Funny, Fifteen, Rooms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every reform was once a private opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reform, Catchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Motivation, Greatest Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Giving, Interesting, Want

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• An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

  Alexander Pope

  Doe, Obstinate, Persons

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• It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

  Georges Duhamel

  Thinking, Bravery, Brave

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• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Society, Public Opinion, Privacy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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• The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Noam Chomsky

  Smart, Passivity Is, People

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

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• Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Able, Way

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Differences

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• Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Thinking, Government

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.443, Psychology Press

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• I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Public Opinion, Ministers, Found

  Sain in the Chamber of Peers in 1821. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 570, 1922.

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• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Others Opinions

  A Room of One's Own (1929) ch. 3

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• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sight, Watches, Letters

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• The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

  Lewis Mumford

  Real, Thinking, Government

  "Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists". Book by Anne Chisholm, 1972.

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• Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Peace, Thinking

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.

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• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Age, Popular Song

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.29, Booklassic

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• It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

  Yitzhak Navon

  Thinking, Paid

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• Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Friendship, Honesty, Believe

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• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Minorities, Starting

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.133, Lulu.com

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• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Mind, Gains, Conviction

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• I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Character, Acceptance

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Judging, First Impression

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• My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humble

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