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How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an

How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. – Alfred de Musset

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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. – Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. – Ani Difranco

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. – Walter Bagehot

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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.” – Carl Sandburg

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