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    A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

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    A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

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    A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

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    Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

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    A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

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    A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

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    A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

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    A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

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    Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

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    A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

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    Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

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    A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

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    A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

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    Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.

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    Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those companies. You can argue that when a lot of people divest, it makes the stock price artificially low, which makes their price-to-earnings ratio more favorable, which makes it a better investment for the people who don't give a damn - - and is it really going to change corporate behavior? It begins to create a climate of antagonistic opinion, the result might be that the corporate executives will retreat even more into their own selfjustifying narratives.

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    Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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    As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

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    As a producer, the only thing you have is an opinion - and if you don't trust your own opinion, then everything becomes vanilla. And for me I always say this to my producers, 'If you're not sure what to do, just ask me.' I'm not smarter and it's not that I know better, but I've probably already made that mistake. As far as TV goes, a lot of it is just troubleshooting and dealing with problems that come up. So that's the message for the younger kids coming up: don't be afraid to say, 'I don't know,' cuz' that's the smartest thing you can say.

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    Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

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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 consensus 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.

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    As far as all players [being unfairly connected], people have their own opinions, and they're usually from the outside looking in. I don't listen to someone who is on the outside of what we're dealing with every day on the inside.

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    As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

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    As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

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    As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

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    A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

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    As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

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    As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

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    As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

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    As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

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    A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

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    As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

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    As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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    As our inclinations, so our opinions.

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    Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.

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    A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

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    As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

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    As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

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    At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

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    As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

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    Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

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    Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

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    Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

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    Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

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    Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

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    Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

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    Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.

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    Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

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    Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

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    Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

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    Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.