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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
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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 a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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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 made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
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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 cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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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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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
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