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• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  Quentin Crisp

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• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  E. B. White

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• Actors are an insecure breed. It’s hard to have your career depend upon other people’s opinions of what you do.

  Alyssa Milano

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• There are as many opinions as there are experts.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind’s leading of the blind.

  Samuel Butler

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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  Samuel Butler

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• As a leader… I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man’s court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

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• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

  John Locke

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• Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

  John Stuart Mill

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• There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica.

  John Stuart Mill

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• I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?

  Joan Baez

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• Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

  John Erskine

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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

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• It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

  Francois Marie Arouet

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• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  Albert Einstein

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• It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

  Aristotle

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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

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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

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• When a man gives his opinion he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion she’s a bitch.

  Bette Davis

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