There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ― Bertrand Russell

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. -Theodore Roosevelt

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You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. - Cornel West

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Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design. - Luca Guadagnino

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Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. - David Hare

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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

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