"A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas."

-- Henry Steele Commager

#Ideas Quotes #Eccentric Quotes #Cherish Quotes

“If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly”

Source : Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster
“I don't want to be the biggest or the best, I want to be faithful.”
“What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.”
“Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
“You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”
“I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.”
“We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.”

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