Unorthodox Quotes

• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  William Westmoreland

  War, Believe, Men

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• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Inspirational, Courage, Thinking

  "Against the Grain : An Autobiography" by Boris Yeltsin, (p. 172), 1990.

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• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

  Boris Yeltsin

  Thinking, Important, Situation

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1990). “Against the grain: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

  William O. Douglas

  Thinking, America, People

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• Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Happiness, Thinking, Ideas

  "Russia and the Independent States" by Daniel C. Diller, (p. 446), 1993.

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• It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  Twilight, Rivers, Study

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• Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

  John Flanagan

  Acceptable

  John Flanagan (2011). “The Siege of Macindaw (Ranger's Apprentice Book 6)”, p.307, Random House

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• The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

  Ruby Dee

  Change, Thinking, Differences

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Voting, Income

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

  Sergio Aragones

  Drawing, Different, Looks

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• The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.

  Peter Medawar

  Religious, Humorous, School

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• Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

  Hugh Hefner

  Angel, People, Sides

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• Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

  Jack Vance

  Inspirational, Motivational, Risk

  "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 9), 1969.

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• You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Way

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• I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Thinking, Guy

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• I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots

  Vinnie Paz

  Ratchets, Shots

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• Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

  Anatol Rapoport

  Ideas, Progress, Exotic

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• If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "The 48 Laws Of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 2010.

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• Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Survival, May

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• The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

  Tony Hawk

  Children, Dad, Support

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• Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Strong, Imagination

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• The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

  Ronald Knox

  Catholic, Mind, Argument

  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1913). “Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called "Foundations,"”

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• A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete.

  Andrew Saul

  Healing, Vitamins And Minerals, America

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Might, Radical Change

  Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”

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• I'm hoping that "Nothin' On You", "Billionaire" and "Just The Way You Are" - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, People, Style

  Source: www.justjared.com

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