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- The passions often engender their contraries.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997), Yage Letters
- The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- Traveling there was really boring so I headed for the ditch. It was a rough ride but I met more interesting people there.
- Neil Young
- The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.
- Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)
- Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.
- Chinese Proverb
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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