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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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even-if you will-eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
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So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
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Thou strange piece of wild nature!
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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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 lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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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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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
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