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| Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. (Gordon R. Dickson) |
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| There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. (Gore Vidal) |
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| I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. (George Bush) |
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| Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) |
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| You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. (Senator Patrick Leahy May 1990) |
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| It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
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| Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) |
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| Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (Erica Jong) |
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| I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. (Bethania McKenstry) |
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| [Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. (Erica Jong) |
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| It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. (Anne Tyler Celestial Navigation 1974) |
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| The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. (Hannah Whitall Smith) |
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| Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (Edna St. Vincent Millay Letters 1952) |
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| It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. (Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged 1957) |
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| The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1890) |
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| Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. (English Proverb) |
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| In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. (Solon) |
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| Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. (Sidney J. Harris) |
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| Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. (Aesop) |
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| People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. (Brendan Francis) |
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| Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. (Spanish Proverb) |
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| Never give advice unless asked. (German Proverb) |
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| Ask advice only of your equals. (Danish Proverb) |
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| You are 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 a judge of the highest matters. (Plato Dialogues Theatetus) |
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| I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. (Bertrand Russell) |
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