Sargent Shriver Quotes
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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In America, public opinion is the leader.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.
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I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that's perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I'm getting into.
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.
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Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
