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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."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had."
"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."
"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
"Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules."
"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."
"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
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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."
"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."
"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."
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