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Letter "O" » Opinions
«If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Opinions,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
no-good
«If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged»
Author: Letty Cottin
| About:
Knowledge,
Opinions,
Power
| Keywords:
clandestine, leverage, leveraged, squared
«It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum.»
Author: Wolcott Gibbs
(Writer)
| About:
Movies,
Opinions
| Keywords:
chewing, chewing gum, exhibited, gum, gums, indignant, moving picture, picture writing, preposterous, publication, publications, witless, write about
«If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.»
«It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.»
Author: Franklin P. Jones
(Businessman)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
cropped, crops, paying, raises
«It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
agree, contributed, developing, expressed, grateful, powers, superficial, views
«If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Opinions
| Keywords:
justified, minus, silencing
«It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
General will, rejected
«In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.»
«In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.»
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