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“I should know by now that Tremaine’s definition of eccentric is… eccentric.” — Martha Wells Copy Share Image
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“That so few dare be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.” — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
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“Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That’s right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“English: "From a certain degree of freedom, understanding is impossible." Česky: „Od určité míry svobody je dorozumění nemožné.” — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it. — Osbert Lancaster Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image