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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

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.

The world is governed by opinion.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.