Quotes 14181 till 14200 of 25137.
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Source: An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason , p. 55. -
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
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Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
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Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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Or I get my navel fluff out and weave it into wigs so that fleas can act out Victorian melodramas
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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