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  • Arthur Schopenhauer 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.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Walter Benjamin 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.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Mann Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • André Malraux Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Booker T. Washington Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
    Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Eliot Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Browning Oppression makes the wise man mad.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Woody Allen Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill Originaliteit is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • John Stuart Mill Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
    Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
    But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
    You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
    Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bill McKibben Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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