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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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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."
"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 is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
"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."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."
"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
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"There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."
"It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living."
"We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity."
"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."
"I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs."
"Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill."
"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."
"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win."
"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it."
"If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money."
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