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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler

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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. – Warren Buffett

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. – Henry Ward Beecher

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. – George Earle Buckle

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At the time of Polaroid – and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff – at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing. – Jim Henson

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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not. – Attributed to Emerson in Edge-Tools of Speech by Maturin M. Ballou, 1886

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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. – James Allen

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There are no rewards or punishments — only consequences. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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