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"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."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
"Marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
"Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment."
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