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• How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

  Thomas Merton

  Thinking, Mind, Shadow

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

  Laozi

  Nature, Expectations, Four

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• In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.

  Robert Greene

  Masculine And Feminine, Play, People

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.51, Profile Books

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• Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .

  John Stott

  Christian, Counter Culture, Long

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.44, SPCK

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• It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, People, Decision

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• We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

  Cheri Huber

  Attitude, Intelligent, Choices

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• New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

  Roger von Oech

  Ideas, Environment, Born

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• The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Yield, World, Tables

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Curiosity, Helping, Transformation

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.12, Moody Publishers

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• Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Missions

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• When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Doctors, Cells, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Majority, Minorities, Catchy

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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• Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.

  Mikhail Chigorin

  Player, Thinking, Trying

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• Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Support, Majority

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.137, Lulu.com

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• To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Truth, Heaven, Earth

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

  Andy Rooney

  Hurt, Ideas, People

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• An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

  Andre Gide

  Important, Trying, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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• Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality.

  Thomas Szasz

  Vocabulary, Expectations, Political

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.27, Syracuse University Press

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• I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

  Billy Carter

  Brother, People, President

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• The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

  Theodor Schwenk

  Law, People, Secret

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• If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Majority, Minorities

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.592

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• Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Baby, Years, Creative

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

  Rumi

  Law, Together, Doe

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• In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

  James G. Watt

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

  James G. Watt, Doug Wead (1985). “The courage of a conservative”, Simon & Schuster

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• A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

  Gore Vidal

  Self, Concern For Others, Greed

  "Screening History (Growing Up With Gore Vidal)". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 24), 1994.

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