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The eccentricity I value is essentially benign, a harmless individualism that reflects a unique, cockeyed view of the world, and spices up what otherwise might be a mundane menu, these eccentrics tend to be self-aware and tongue in cheek. They're winking at us. Some eccentrics, moreover, are just visionaries ahead of their time, like the early advocates of such eccentric notions as animal welfare. – Andy Duncan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. – Robert Frost	added by Normando 5 years ago
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. – Joseph Brodsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – John Stuart Mill	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours. – A. M. Rosenthal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. – Edith Sitwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The eccentricity I value is essentially benign, a harmless individualism that reflects a unique, cockeyed view of the world, and spices up what otherwise might be a mundane menu, these eccentrics tend to be self-aware and tongue in cheek. They're winking at us. Some eccentrics, moreover, are just visionaries ahead of their time, like the early advocates of such eccentric notions as animal welfare.

– Andy Duncan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

– Robert Frost

added by Normando
5 years ago

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.

– Joseph Brodsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

– John Stuart Mill

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours.

– A. M. Rosenthal

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

– Edith Sitwell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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