To believe that technology can be our savior was a minority opinion in the counterculture.

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If your actions are criticized, the leaderly thing to do is to answer the critics, engage them, but remember that nowadays a minority opinion can get attention that is way out of proportion to the actual influence of that particular group.

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"A majority of people are of an opinion separate" from that of a minority, Larijani said.

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Their leaders were learned and judicious men, a minority whose excellence derived not from popular opinion or emotion but from the Enlightenment and its pro-reason virtues.

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Opinion polls consistently show that only a tiny minority of Corsicans want independence from France.

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The conservative opposition - which leads Julia Gillards minority coalition government in the opinion polls - has called the media inquiry a "naked attempt to intimidate the media".

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