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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forc

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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Conformity
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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. – Norman Mailer

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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. – Leo Baeck

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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Minorities

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer

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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism. – Robert Charles Winthrop

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God invented concubinage, satan marriage. – Francis Picabia

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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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