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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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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."

"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."

"The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'"

"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."

"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."

"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."

"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."

"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."

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

"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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"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."

"Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty."

"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."

"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
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