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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.
Author: Plato
Source: Dialogues, Theatetus
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Author: Albert Einstein
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Author: Mark Twain
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Author: Mark Twain
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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