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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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"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
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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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"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
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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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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
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"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
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"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
Kids
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
Being
"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
Trouble
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
Individuality
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."
Courage
"We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."
Habit
"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."
Life
"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."
Conformity
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."
Emotional
"Only the sinner has the right to preach."
Authenticity
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