„For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.“
— Jr.
„The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs.“
— Heinrich Heine
„Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.“
— Leonard Bernstein