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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."
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"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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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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"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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"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
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"If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite."
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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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"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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"Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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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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"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."
Communication
"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock."
Trouble
"Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing."
Man
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
Kids
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
Learning
"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."
Woman
"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."
Life
"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
People
"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."
People
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
Beauty
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