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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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"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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"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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"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 are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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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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"There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence."
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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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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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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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"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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"Some men do not know the father of 'their' children."
Family
"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."
Perception
"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
Technology
"The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you."
Relationship
"Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex, they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then."
Behavior
"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."
Freedom
"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
Society
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
Mortality
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
Life
"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
Intelligence
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