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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists."
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"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
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"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
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"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
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"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
Conformity
"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
Glory
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
Life
"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."
Life
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
Religion
"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
Humor
"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
Man
"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
Earth
"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
Strength
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
Failure
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