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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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"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."
"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."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"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."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
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"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."
"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
"I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world."
"An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I've made, not the elimination of it."
"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."
"I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands."
"Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact."
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