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| Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. ~ Author Unknown |
| Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ~ Author Unknown |
| Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~ Glen Beaman |
| Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~ Christopher Morley |
| You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~ Doug Floyd |
| Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ~ Lydia Maria Child |
| Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary. ~ Albert Einstein |
| In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~ Bertrand Russell |
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| Not all those who wander are lost. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien |
| You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~ Winston Churchill |
| We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. ~ Charles Dudley Warner |
| Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~ Voltaire |
| The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ~ J.K. Galbraith |
| The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~ John Fischer |
| With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ~ Norman Mailer |
| Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain |
| 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. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
| New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ John Locke, |
| Doubt is healthy. It tests one’s convictions. ~ From the movie |
| Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you’re locked up. ~ Author Unknown |
| Ain’t no man can avoid being average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. ~ Satchel Paige |
| One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. ~ Proverb |
| Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. ~ Paul Vixie |
| I may not be different, but I’m definitely not the same. ~ William J. Dybus |
| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~ Herman Melville |
| We need – and should encourage and honour – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. ~ Walter Moberly, |
| If you don’t control your mind, someone else will. ~ John Allston |