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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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"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs."
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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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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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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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"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
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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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"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 opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
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"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."
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"I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre."
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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."
Conformity
"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
Trouble
"Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing."
Man
"All students can learn."
Education
"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."
Theology
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
Beauty
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
Purpose
"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."
Mind
"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."
Communication
"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
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