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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
― HEGEL

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness