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If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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opinions
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Paulo Coelho |
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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reading
books
pg-84
senator-pococurante
opinions
fame
taste
judgment
independent-thought
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Voltaire |
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How would your life be different if...You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day...You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others
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motivational
life
inspirational
opinions
self-love
self-empowerment
choices
self-esteem
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Steve Maraboli |
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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correcting
criticism
inspirational
correction
contradiction
opinions
paranoia
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
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life
opinions
logic
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Douglas Adams |
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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opinions
skepticism
independent-thought
thinking
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Christopher Hitchens |
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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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tolkien
bad-reviews
boring
opinions
reviews
complain
lotr
literary-criticism
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
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science
geometry
opinions
physics
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Thomas Jefferson |
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Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
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wrong
opinions
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Chuck Klosterman |
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"1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They're also entitled to express them online. 2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don't like. 3. Sometimes those opinions won't be very nice. 4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes. 5. However, if your solution to this "problem" is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are a bigger asshole. 6. You may also be twelve. 7. You are not responsible for anyone else's actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own. 8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
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criticism
freedom-of-opinion
reviewers
reviewing
opinions
freedom-of-expression
freedom-of-speech
reviews
bullying
readers
censorship
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John Scalzi |
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People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.
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action
people
motivational
life
inspirational
courageous
opinions
decision
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Steve Maraboli |
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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.
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relationships
opinions
nicole-diver
rosemary-hoyt
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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"Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking."
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money
influence
success
life
opinions
decisions
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Napoleon Hill |
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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inspirational
priniples
steadfastness
opinions
ideas
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Victor Hugo |
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One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
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opinions
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Piers Anthony |
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Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up.
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reading
disagree
opinions
disagreements
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Joel Salatin |
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Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.
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ourselves
other-people
opinions
self-worth
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Arthur Schopenhauer |
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But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously -- after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)
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entertainers
mistaken-attribution
idols
opinions
rationality
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.
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criticism
philosophy
opinions
thought
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Fernando Pessoa |
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Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
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self-consciousness
opinions
objectivity
subjectivity
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L.M. Montgomery |
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Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.
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man
opinions
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Milan Kundera |
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It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.
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opinions
think
ideas
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Karen Cushman |
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When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . on morals.
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opinions
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Thomas Hardy |
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Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.
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opinions
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Danielle Steel |
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If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all
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truth
opinions
tolerance
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Mohsin Hamid |
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You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...
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racism
opinions
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Susan Cooper |
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...people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.
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convictions
opinions
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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"...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring the boys up to believe in them?" "I hope they believe in something," said Elspeth. 'Imagaine believing in nothing at all--not even in love, or justice, or any of the things that can make people passionate." "Such as a country?" Elspeth thought about this. "I suppose there are lots of people who believe in Scotland. Or the European Union, for that matter. Their belief anables them to ... well, to talk about the future with enthusiasm. They don't like things as they are and they are convinced that things will be much improved once they are otherwise." "Well, why not?" asked Matthew. "I didn't say there was any reason why not. I'm just commenting on that sort of belief. The trouble is that it might make discussion difficult. If somebody believes to strongly in one particular solution to the world's problems, then it may obscure the nuances. That's all I was saying." Elspeth paused. "They may not see that there are others who have a different view. You can love things in a whole lot of different ways, can't you?"
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passion
opinions
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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In California, after weeks of meeting transported Americans from practically every state in the Union, I announced to Kareem that I liked these strange loud people, the Americans. When he asked me why, I had difficulty in voicing what I felt in my heart. I finally said: 'I believe this marvellous mixture of cultures has brought civilization closer to reality than in any other culture in history.' I was certain Kareem did not understand what I meant and I tried to explain. 'So few countries manage complete freedom for all their citizens without chaos; this has been accomplished in this huge land. It appears impossible for large numbers of people to stay on a course of freedom for all when so many options are available. Just imagine what would happen in the Arab world; a country the size of America would have a war a minute, with each man certain he had the only correct answer for the good of all! In our lands, men look no farther than their own noses for a solution. Here, it is different.' Kareem looked at me in amazement. Not used to a woman interested in the greater scheme of things, he questioned me into the night to learn my thoughts on various matters. It was obvious that my husband was not accustomed to a woman with opinions of her own. He seemed in utter shock that I thought of political issues and the state of the world. Finally, he kissed me on the neck and said that I would continue my education once we returned to Riyadh. Irritated at his tone of permission, I told him I was not aware that my education was up for discussion.
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arab-world
politics
opinions
culture
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Jean Sasson |