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His manners are somewhat blunt and odd, and he is altogether out of the common road, without having chosen a better path.

“His manners are somewhat blunt and odd, and he is altogether out of the common road, without having chosen a better path.” — Frances Burney, A learned man on Evelina

Author YahooeyPosted on September 7, 2017September 4, 2017Categories QuotationsTags A learned man on Evelina, bluntness, choices, Frances Burney, iconoclast, manners, uniqueness2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

“Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

Author YahooeyPosted on January 16, 2017January 3, 2017Categories QuotationsTags iconoclast, Mignon McLaughlin, patterns, predictable, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook, uniqueness, unpredictableLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

“When you’re invisible, no one can see that you’re different.” — Charles de Lint, Pal o’ Mine

Author YahooeyPosted on December 8, 2016December 2, 2016Categories QuotationsTags Charles de Lint, different, iconoclast, invisible, Pal o’ MineLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Author YahooeyPosted on March 11, 2016March 19, 2019Categories QuotationsTags conformity, convention, conventional people, criticism, deviation from the norm, fury, iconoclast1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Author YahooeyPosted on August 29, 2014July 19, 2014Categories QuotationsTags common-place, conformity, iconoclast, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., remarkable, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans

“There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.” — Malcolm Muggeridge, Muggeridge Through the Microphone

Author YahooeyPosted on March 24, 2013August 12, 2018Categories QuotationsTags iconoclast, individualism, Malcolm Muggeridge, Muggeridge Through the Microphone, nonconformism, nonconformityLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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