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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
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"Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion — and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called "programming" — the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow."
Suzy Kassem
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It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?
Joan Didion, American writer (1934-2021)
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I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.
John Waters, American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
A. A. Milne, British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882-1956)
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No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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