In my opinion he needs a break from the job and the game," Botham wrote in the Daily Mirror. .
To solicit an opinion, though, he needed a specific case.
The Internet offered him as many opinions as he needed to find one he liked.
One important general point that emerges from Leibniz's remarks in the letter to Remond is that there was more than one set of "received opinions" that he needed to take into account.
That's not part of, in my opinion, what he needs to worry about.
"Make sure to tell Hamza that I am of the opinion that he needs to get out of Waziristan [the area of Pakistan close to the Afghan border where many drone attacks were targeted] if he is there, and he should not go there if he is not there," he says in a letter to al-Rahman in October 2010.
"John went there to Lowell this year and found out what that was all about, and that in my opinion was all that he needed".
Obama, whose approval rating was still above sixty per cent, was more confident than his aides in his abilities to change public opinion and persuade Congress he needed the resources.
But Chase knew he could get what he needed straightaway with an opinion from Bates.
When shown these documents, Grossmann said that he needed to change his opinion.
Kohan encouraged Heder to stop soliciting outside opinions: she needed to write.
