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Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Aesop, "The Man and His Two Wives," Fables
Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
Alan Sherman
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.
Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Einstein
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
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
Aldous Huxley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Alexander Hamilton
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alfred de Musset
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Anatole France
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Ani Difranco
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong.
Anonymous man on Candid Camera, answering Allen Funt's question about why he had not gotten upset
I don't rent space to anyone in my head.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Author Unknown
Don't think you're on the right road just because it?s a well-beaten path.
 
 
 
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