#opinion

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#been #before #carried #century #character

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#educated #great #live #manners #men

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#bach #evolved #evolving #humble #humble opinion

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#before #blending #decision #just #listen

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ↗

— Paul Goodman

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It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy. ↗

— Bob Graham

#critical time #economy #few #focused #fundamentally

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#british government #chaos #disorder #expect #expressly

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ↗

— Democritus

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