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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

— Tina Fey

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

— Cornel West

I'm a passionate monarchist.

— Max Hastings

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

— Winston Churchill

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

— Dan Rather

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

— Clive Thompson

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

— Francis Collins

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

— Salvador Dali

✗Opposing Perspectives

The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

— Vaclav Klaus

I have invented the Thermometer style.

— Josef Albers