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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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"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
"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."
"It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must have a sound basis, even if we are not sure exactly what this may be, because they have been adhered to by a great many people for a long time. It seems implausible that our society could be gravely mistaken in its beliefs, and at the same time, that we would be alone in noticing the fact. We stifle our doubts, and follow the flock, because we cannot conceive of ourselves as pioneers of hitherto unknown difficult truths. It is for help in overcoming our meekness that we can turn to the philosopher."
"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."
"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."
"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."
"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."
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