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People, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. so the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.
-Judith Martin
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People, In Forming Their Opinions Of Others,

Judith Martin
People, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. so the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.
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The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.
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Everybody has opinions: i have them, you have them. and we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. well, that's horsepuckey, of course. we are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. it's just bibble-babble. it's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.
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