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«Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.»
Author: Elizabeth II
| Keywords:
disagreement, disagreements, Eccentricities, eccentricity, impetuous, in disagreement, wayward, youngster, youngsters
«The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Eccentricities, eccentricity, faked, feigned, feigning, imitated, imposter, imposters, individualism, seasoned, surest, whimsicality
«No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Eccentricities, eccentricity, profoundly
«The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy»
«Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
broods, controls, doleful, Eccentricities, eccentricity, merry-go-round, occasionally, purposely, revolve, revolves, revolving, riding, somber, suspicion, theme, The Force, visited
«Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Courage,
Genius
| Keywords:
abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, contained, Eccentricities, eccentricity, proportional, vigor
«ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accentuate, Eccentricities, eccentricity, incapacity
«Eccentricities of genius.»
«People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abilities, adequate, adequate to, Eccentricities, eccentricity, fall into, People of, sphere, uncommon
«A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, doubtful, Eccentricities, eccentricity, Point of, sanity, the point, tolerates, tolerating, to the point
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