{"quotes":[{"text":"I do not go to church. I don’t go to Christian church or Jew church or any other church. I don’t go to church at all. Not ever. A perfect Sunday for me is spent drinking green tea while reading the Sunday New York Times. Yikes! Why don’t I just turn in my Al-Qaeda membership form and call it a day? As if that wasn’t bad enough, not only do I not go to church:I don’t believe in God. How can I say the Pledge of Allegiance if I don’t believe in God? How can I spend our American currency which pledges “In God We Trust?” How can I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help me God? Answer: I can’t. It’s a real problem. Don’t get me wrong – I’d like to believe in God. I wish I did, especially if He was the kind of God that thought America was #1. But I don’t, which to many people is the same as not believing in America. Up until recently, I thought those people were lunatics.","author":"Michael Ian Black","tags":["al-qaeda","atheism","atheist","belief","blog","funny","humor","jew","jewish","opinion","separation-of-church-and-state"],"id":1529,"author_id":"Michael+Ian+Black"},{"text":"Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["change","different-point-of-view","grown-up","opinion","others-perspective"],"id":1874,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"For every opinion you receive, seek guidance from the Creator.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","challenges","crossroad","faith","god","guidance","healthy-living","hope","inspirational","opinion","opinions-lailah-gifty-akita","opinions-of-others","positive-thoughts","seek","spiritual","uplifting"],"id":2506,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["fuel","gas","happiness","inspirational","journey","life","motivational","opinion","success"],"id":2771,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people’s notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody’s throat.","author":"Boris Pasternak","tags":["opinion","russia","social-evils","untruth"],"id":3550,"author_id":"Boris+Pasternak"},{"text":"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["artist","belief","brain","cognition","confession","consideration","creativity","creed","death","discard","funny","funny-but-true","habits","honesty","humor","instinct","intellectual","intuition","irrational","knowledge","life","logic","mind","negativity","old-habits","old-person","opinion","original-thought","positivity","precious","psychology","rational","rationalization","sentimental","stubborn","think","thinker","thinking","thought","thoughts","tradition","treasure","valuable","wisdom"],"id":6887,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.","author":"Jackie Robinson","tags":["opinion","you","going "],"id":7526,"author_id":"Jackie+Robinson"},{"text":"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.","author":"Douglas MacArthur","tags":["support","present","opinion "],"id":8014,"author_id":"Douglas+MacArthur"},{"text":"Raise the bar higher than your opinion...","author":"Gino Norris","tags":["empowerment","motivation","opinion","perspective","self-understad-nding"],"id":9176,"author_id":"Gino+Norris"},{"text":"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["mankind","opinion","person "],"id":9717,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":538,"pages":54,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}