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"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."	Albert Einstein
"He who joyfully marches 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 suffice."	Albert Einstein
"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."	Albert Einstein
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."	Ambrose Bierce
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness."	Archibald MacLeish
"Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path."	Author Unknown
"Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions."	Author Unknown
"Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up."	Author Unknown
"If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got."	Author Unknown
"The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."	Ayn Rand
"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence."	Barbara Cook
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."	Betty Naomi Friedan
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."	Charles Evans Hughes
"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."	Christa McAuliffe
"Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause."	Clarence Darrow
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."	Douglas Noel Adams
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
"Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes."	Edgar Watson Howe
"Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind."	Edward Albee
"Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one."	Elbert Hubbard
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