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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right."
— Ashleigh Brilliant
— Ashleigh Brilliant
"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
— Harlan Ellison
— Harlan Ellison
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
— William Blake
— William Blake
"Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)
"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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— J.R.R. Tolkien
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— J.R.R. Tolkien
"If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance."
— Thomas à Kempis (The Imitation of Christ)
— Thomas à Kempis (The Imitation of Christ)
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth."
— Joseph Joubert
— Joseph Joubert
"Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor."
— Hugh Elliott
— Hugh Elliott
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"Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole."
— B.W. Powe (Towards a Canada of Light)
— B.W. Powe (Towards a Canada of Light)
"It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion."
— William Inge
— William Inge
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"I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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— Steve Jobs
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
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— Steve Jobs
"When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate."
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable)
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. "
— Bethania McKenstry
— Bethania McKenstry
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opinions
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"Piano keys are black and white, but they sound like a million colours in your mind."
— Katie Melua
— Katie Melua
"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
— Albert Einstein
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