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Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

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Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. ↗

— Brennan Manning

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My good opinion once lost is lost forever. ↗

— Jane Austen

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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. ↗

— Josh Billings

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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. ↗

— Josh Billings

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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ↗

— John Dawkins

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