Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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I am my own man for Jt Ellison
They say I’m mad but I don’t care
It’s merely eccentricity
If I was poor I would be mad
but I am not which makes me glad
I have my own psychiatrist
He thinks he knows much more than me.
He has delusions which persist
Which I encourage quietly.
So he advances theories
meant to explain what makes me tick.
Tries to diagnose some disease.
He cannot see I am not sick.
I did not choose to be a clone
accept opinions tailor made
He is a fool he should have known
That I would see through his charade.
I am not mad just different.
Simply because I choose to be
I go my own way quite content
Proud of my eccentricity.
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There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
quote by Montel Williams
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The Hallway
I need the object of my focus
A small amount more courage
Will carry me thru the door.
I need to fulfill my purpose
A little less inquisition please
Just release to me, what I came for.
I’m begging you for my own meaning
Longing for those sweet opinions
You one fist fed to me.
I’m pleading for a theme here
Just please tell me,
What did I come for?
I’m conflicting all your intentions
By lying innocent
I’m compromised. The dissention
Is like lying in a sense.
Just give me what I’m bleeding for
Explain what all this needing is for
A small amount more courage
And I will inquire beyond the door.
For what I came for.
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It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
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A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
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Do you dare?
Do you dare to be different?
Become an individual,
ignore the rules to some extent.
Prepared to be unusual.
Adopting eccentricity
in everything you do and say
and stamp your personality
on those you meet along life’s way.
You may be seen as arrogant,
afflicted by insanity.
Because you can ignore the cant
Society’s hypocrisy.
Because you’re bold enough to be
able to act naturally.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours.
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The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
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Make the amount of sauce you use correspond to the amount of rice you have.
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
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The amount of people equals the amount of opinions.
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.
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