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Quote by Robert Peel
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. – Robert Peel

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But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. – Robert Peel

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. – Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

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What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. – Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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