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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
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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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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now."
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"If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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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."
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"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."
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"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win."
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"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."
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"We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do."
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