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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Boys, Men, Spells

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1063, Delphi Classics

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• If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

  Paul Watson

  War, Animal, Views

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• Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

  Jane Austen

  Literature, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.543, Wordsworth Editions

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• All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

  Horace

  Men, Fine, Admire

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 569-70, Epistles, II. 2. 58, 1922.

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• Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Community, Public Opinion

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

  Carlos Slim

  Thinking, Others Opinions, Entrepreneur

  "Carlos Slim: The world's wealthiest man" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

  Lucille Clifton

  Attitude, African American, Perception

  "Fooling with Words (Part One)". billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.

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• Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

  Jim Rohn

  Voice, Entrepreneur, Tunes

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 14, 2016

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• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sheep, Vegetarianism, Different

  Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)

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• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Attitude, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

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• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

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• It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

  John Stuart Mill

  Age, Certain, Rejected

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.164, Hackett Publishing

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Knowledge, Parenting

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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  If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, Philosophy, Differences

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

  Epictetus

  Men, Oxford, Trouble

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• One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. Respect yourself and respect the integrity of others as well. The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you.

  Jaime Escalante

  Integrity, Self, Want

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• There are a lot of guys who think that if they show weakness or vulnerability they're not sexy anymore or attractive. In my opinion, you can't be too open or too gentle or kind or sensitive. If you really want to work on a relationship and have one that lasts, you have to be willing to go deep into human psychology and emotion. If you don't want to go there, you can be a serial dater, and I guess that's okay, but if you want a relationship with a woman, you have to be introspective and look at yourself and your family and where you've been and where you're going.

  Megan Fox

  Sexy, Thinking, Guy

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Victory, Disputes

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

  Democritus

  Motivational, Philosophy, Science

  Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

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• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

  Lord Acton

  Fall, Law, Tables

  Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. June 11, 1895.

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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• Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Views, Forever

  Horace Mann (1871). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its Twenty-ninth Anniversary”, p.80

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• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

  John Maynard Keynes

  History, Mind, Constitution

  End of Laissez-Faire (1926) pt. 1

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• My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Government, Views

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