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• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

  David Bohm

  Real, Learning, Knowledge

  David Bohm, Mark Edwards (1991). “Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world”, Harpercollins

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• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

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• I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

  Erykah Badu

  Respect, Thinking, People

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• Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Scripture, Conformity

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

  Shakti Gawain

  Motivational, Nature, Self Esteem

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.37, New World Library

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Needs, Consumers

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• When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Society, Requirements

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

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• Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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  If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Success, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.234, Рипол Классик

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• Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

  Margaret Drabble

  Desire, Facts, Greater

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• We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Being Different, Half, Conformity

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.172

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• Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Blow, People, Understanding

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• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Freedom, Real

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.337

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Fighting, Rebel

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• Infancy conforms to nobody;
  all conform to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

  Allan Sherman

  Color, Being Different, Might

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