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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Author: Albert Camus
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
Author: Albert Einstein
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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
Author: Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Author: Anatole France
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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.
Author: Ani Difranco
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A lawyer’s brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us – and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
Author: Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading ‘Keep Off.’
Author: Carl Sandburg
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We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.
Author: Chinese Proverb
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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
Author: Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Author: Colin Wilson
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People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.
Author: Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794
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Our concern must be to live while we’re alive… to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Author: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881
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I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Author: Fritz Perls
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My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal.
Author: From the movie Ed TV
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Author: G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
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