"In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong."

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Source : Humphrey Bancroft Neill (1963). “The Art of Contrary Thinking”, p.9, Caxton Press

Humphrey B. Neill

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“There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.”

Source : John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.362, Simon and Schuster
“Don't be normal. Be an example.”
“I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.”
“My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.”
“Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.”

Source : Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”
“I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'”

Source : "Sebastian Bach is one big, giant contradiction". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 26, 2012.
“no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.”
“I pretty much ate everything that I like and I've always wanted to eat and I just didn't hold myself back and it was the best.”

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