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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
-William R. Alger
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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.
-Marcus Antonius
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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
-Hannah Arendt
On Revolution, ch. 6 (1963)
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
-Jane Austen
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
-Walter Bagehot
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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
-Bernard Baruch
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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.
-Kim Basinger
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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
-Irving Batcheller
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
-Walter Benjamin
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
-Walter Benjamin
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
-William Blake
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
-Phillips Brooks
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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
-Les Brown
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
-George Earle Buckle
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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
-Warren Buffett
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
-Samuel Butler
Notebooks, 1912
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
-Samuel Butler
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
-Samuel Butler
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Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Books about Opinion
