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• Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 04, 2016

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• If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Philosophical, Mean, Reality

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

  Tennessee Williams

  World, Compromise, Trouble

  Tennessee Williams (1967). “One Arm and Other Stories”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information more mindfully. Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Taken, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hate, Mean, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (2008). “Intercourse”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

  Bill Maher

  Marriage, Lying, Hypocrisy

  "I'm against gay marriage--and straight marriage too" By Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

  Wayne Grudem

  Attitude, Law, Moral

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.455, Harper Collins

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• The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

  Andrew Weil

  Happiness, Attitude, Expectations

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• The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Order, People

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.

  Arthur Keith

  Practice, Theory Of Evolution, Germany

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• [An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

  Carl Mitcham

  Science, Engineering, Ideas

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• The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.

  Ira Remsen

  Honesty, Believe, Teaching

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• Conclusions
  I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population.
  II. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of values of the means of such samples, when these values are measured from the mean of the population in terms of the standard deviation of the sample...
  III. Tables are given by which it can be judged whether a series of experiments, however short, have given a result which conforms to any required standard of accuracy or whether it is necessary to continue the investigation.

  William Sealy Gosset

  Mean, Curves, Tables

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• The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

  Frank Pavone

  Religion, Atheism, Church

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• Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Reality, Keeping Promises

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.241, Mango Media Inc.

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• Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Ideas, Discipline

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

  Alexander Bickel

  War, Law, Judging

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• Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Strong, Successful, Men

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• Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Creating

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• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Issues, Clothes

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.205

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• In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Community, Culture

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• God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

  Jerry Bridges

  Children, Pain, Son

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.169, NavPress

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• Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Thinking, People, Vision

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• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

  Ezra Pound

  Definitions, Classic, Fit

  Ezra Pound (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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