"The amount of eccentricity in a society has..." - John Stuart Mill

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“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.”

Mill correlates creative nonconformity with societal vitality.

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— Aristotle

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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— Oscar Wilde

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— Akira Kurosawa

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— Ada Lovelace

“Brilliant thinking is rare but courage is in even shorter supply than genius”

— Peter Thiel

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— Arthur Schopenhauer