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"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
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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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"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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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice."
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"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
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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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"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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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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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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"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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"England is a nation of shopkeepers."
Business
"War is the business of barbarians."
War
"The human race is governed by its imagination."
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"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
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"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
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"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."
Justice
"If they want peace nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots."
Peace
"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."
Change
"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them."
Wealth
"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
Diplomacy
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