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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.