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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

Friendly, Regret, Two

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Knowledge, Ignorance, Between

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Person, May, Words

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire

Earth, Trouble, Caused

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.
Lil Wayne

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Truth

Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato

Knowledge, True

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama

Success, Politics, Remember

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Men, America

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Les Brown

Someone, Reality, Become

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale Carnegie

Same, Against, Convinced

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson

Life, Whole, Goes

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal

Country, Less, United

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

Fact, Whatever, Evidence

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen

Nothing, Humility, Sometimes

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Everyone, Facts, Entitled

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Women, Experience

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fool, Once, Himself

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.
Devon Aoki

Beauty, Power, Someone

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley

Great, Truth, Silence

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke

Judgment, Industry, Sacrifices

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce

Belief, Statement, Absurdity

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Once, Accepted

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.
Bertrand Russell

Progress, Whether, Though

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne

Best, Stupidity, Stubborn

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

Great, Popular, Trends

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke

Justice, Made, Liberty

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor

Good, Best, Teacher

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown

Reality, Become

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom, Government, Exist

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