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• You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

  Romola Garai

  Today, Aesthetic

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• Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Unique, Creating, Mold

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1987.

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• The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Our World, Creative, Majority

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotism, Trying, May

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.382

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• The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Men, Views

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Change, Truth

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• Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Cat, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

  Jonathan Evison

  Past, People, Doe

  Jonathan Evison (2009). “All About Lulu”, p.233, Soft Skull Press

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• The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Demand, Made, Higher

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• Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

  Richelle Mead

  Fashion, Kids, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.272, Zebra Books

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, White Man, Black

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• You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Sight, Order

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• The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Letting Go, Motivation, Pride

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• But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.

  John Piper

  Real, One Day, Answers

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• To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

  Bell Hooks

  Home, School, Self

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• Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.

  James E. Faust

  Heart, Law, Silence

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• You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Powerful, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.75, Penguin

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• A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Population, Stereotype, Significant

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• It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

  Robert E. Lee

  Mean, Expectations, Wish

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.108, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• To conform is to lose your soul

  Joshua Ferris

  Soul, Your Soul, Loses

  Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

  William P. Young

  Thinking, Independence, Use

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• Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Self, Joy

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

  Edith Wharton

  Definitions, Beloved, Classic

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• Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

  C. S. Lewis

  Poet, Invention, Conscious

  C. S. Lewis (1990). “Poetry and prose in the sixteenth century”, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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