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  1. Paulo Coelho _ The Alchemist

    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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  2. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Lord of the Rings

    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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  3. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    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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  4. Napoleon Hill _ Think and Grow Rich: The

    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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  5. Chuck Klosterman _ Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A

    Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
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  6. Joel Salatin _ Folks, This Ain't Normal: A

    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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  7. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    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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  8. Milan Kundera _ Encounter

    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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  9. Thomas Jefferson _ Virginia Statute for Religious

    Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry..."
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  10. John Scalzi

    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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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ At the Reunion Buffet

    …people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Revolving Door of Life

    ...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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