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Do you really want a court that is afraid to act because of popular opinion.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

The debate surrounding Social Security reform brings to the forefront philosophical differences, varying opinions, and the age old trade-offs between fairness, simplicity, economic growth and social policy. We strongly urge policymakers and the public to thoroughly understand the issues surrounding Social Security reform before taking a position.

Everything is on the table, including the continued independence for these three carriers, but in my opinion, that's not likely, ... There's an old saying that you have to break eggs to make omelet. The industry is looking for a new financial equilibrium. If you try to stay independent, in the near term you won't gum up earnings, but long term, I think it's an untenable situation.

My opinion is the state should be investing more money in small business. It's better to have 10 companies with 10 jobs each than one company with 100 employees.

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my religious conversion. Hinduism does not appeal to my conscience. My self-respect cannot assimilate Hinduism. In your case change of religion is imperative for worldly as well as spiritual ends. Do not care for the opinion of those who foolishly ridicule the idea of conversion for material ends. Why should you live under the fold of that religion which has deprived you of honor, money, food and shelter

My opinion is that we need a decisive, straight-forward leader of the town who moves the business of the public always as quickly as it could be done.

We can help with anything inside or outside the house. Sometimes it's difficult to find people out there who will give you an honest opinion and not try to sell you something down the line. We just give our opinions.

The levee failures we saw were in areas of the projects that were at their full project design. So that part of the project was in place and had this project been fully complete ... it's my opinion, based on the intensity of this storm, that the flooding of the Central Business District and the French Quarter would still have occurred.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

We realize that the community in the democratic way it operates is vital to its existence. We may have an opinion on which directions the technology ought to go and we will voice that in the community, but it's a wide diverse body and we're just one of the voices in it.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

We have taken account of all aspects, including scientific evidence, but it is clear that public opinion does play a role in the process.

After going over to Alcatraz on a boat with them (Monday), I haven't changed my opinion. They're big human beings. ... They can block out the sun on you if you're not careful.

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

We are getting some more analysis on his injury. He's wanting to play, and we're hopeful he can, but we are going to get the proper medical opinions. We're going to make sure.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I knew Chief Justice Rehnquist since the late 1960s. In my opinion, he was the most consequential chief justice since John Marshall,

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

I think his success has a lot more to do with his desire than with his mind. I am never going to doubt his desire or level of it. My opinion and about 200 other coaches' opinions is that he made it possible at the state meet because he wanted to.

He had to jump through some legal hoops to issue this opinion. It leads us to believe it was more about political ideology than legal standing.

It is my intention to be everyone's prime minister. Whatever the differences of opinion between us, we are brothers,

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

The rules are ambiguous and you can't call up (Voters Services) and get an opinion, ... In 1999 that was (a) result of erroneous instructions that we got from Voter Services. I'm very skeptical.

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels shore, going to meet Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoros c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic his Majestie the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones Gyrlands I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them

There is always going to be some differences of opinion. The good thing is that Mike and Jacques go so far back. There is a level of trust and respect that is very comforting. Two great minds working together to figure it all out is all I could ask.

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

If somebody came up to me and asked for my professional opinion, I'd say, 'It's a pile of junk,' ... If a buyer was to come to me and say, 'What do you think of this house' I'd say, 'You have a lot of work to do.'

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

We now no longer know what the attorney general's opinion is despite the press speculation there has been that he is deeply disturbed.

It is clear that his testimony is targeted at Serbian public opinion.

With this legal opinion, which FIFA itself sought, CAS has laid the foundations for resolving any differences that exist with regard to the World Anti-Doping Code.

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

From my point of view it's quite simple - I only want to cite if a player is injured and can take no further part in the game. I think, apart from that, I wouldn't have an opinion.

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

It was, in my opinion, a cheap play. (The Senators) said it was inadvertent. If you check and look at it, it's not inadvertent. He took the kid's feet out.

In my opinion, they could have done a better job of capitalizing on the cachet names of Gretzky, Jordan, and Elway. It always seemed to be a very low-key involvement on their part, possibly because of a concern of being too closely associated with a dot.com business they perhaps didn't fully believe in or support.

Whatever the rules are, we'll follow them. I personally think it's healthier for the league to have a cap, but that's my opinion.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

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

Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.

Everybody has a right to their opinion. I don't have to agree with it. I don't have to like it. . . . That's part of college basketball now.

We are satisfied with the meeting with the mufti. We were able to exchange constructive opinions. The conversation was positive on all sides.

They reflect the opinion of Democratic activists. But I don't think you can extrapolate from the results the thinking of the general public.

Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it.

This move makes HP look much more like IBM and, in our opinion, makes strategic sense.