“Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.”
“I have very little regard for consensus if it blinds you to the truth.”
Interview in The Guardian (2007)
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“If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough.”
From article: Taylor, Chris (Nov. 29, 2004). The Sky's the Limit. Time Magazine, p. 67.

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Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”
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Variant translation: The inclination of people to consider small things as important has produced many great things.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

Interview with Larry Smith, basis for Bigg's character on the show Orange Is the New Black, interview excerpted in: — [December 4, 2014, http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/07/16/larry-smith-jason-biggs-orange-is-the-new-black/, Jason Biggs talks 'Orange is the New Black' with real-life Larry, Ariana Bacle, July 16, 2014, Entertainment Weekly]
“Consensus is built, sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests.”
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 7, The Political Stream, p. 161
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XII: The Last Terrestrials; Section 1, “The Cult of Evanescence” (p. 176)
“I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband.”
Title of film (1973) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070204/