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George Eliot
: Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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H L Mencken :
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
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Garrison Keillor :
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“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.”
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
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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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Van Morrison :
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People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.
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There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it.
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Bernard Devoto :
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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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Henry David Thoreau :
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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