If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.)

~ Isaac Asimov

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It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.

~ E.m. Forster

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I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.

~ Lorde

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