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• Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Law, Abuse

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.54, Canongate Books

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• All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

  Maureen Duffy

  People, Labels, Patterns

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• Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Anxious Thoughts, Giving

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• God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Song, Expectations, Trying

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• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  Patrick Stump

  Mean, Safety Pins, Mohawks

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• Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

  Vernon Howard

  Events, Movement, Outcomes

  "Treasury of Positive Answers". Book by Vernon Howard, 1977.

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• Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Different

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• The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Fashion, Insecure, Men

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

  Tomas Kalnoky

  Rebel, Mainstream

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• If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public.

  George Li

  Winning, Thinking, Imagination

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• Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

  Laurie Anderson

  Reading, Symphony, Judging

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Race, Understanding

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• I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

  Saul Williams

  Thinking, Order, Important

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative family arrangements, and as conforming to white norms as much as possible. When these strategies are used, the most dangerous conditions and the people who are most vulnerable cannot be discussed or addressed.

  Dean Spade

  Hard Work, Organization, White

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

  Jillian Medoff

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Two, Conformity

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• The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

  Martha Beck

  Standards Set, Goal, Way

  Martha Beck (2011). “Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic”, p.116, Harmony

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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Reading, Reality

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• In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos

  Alan Armstrong

  World, Chaos

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• If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.

  Francis George

  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.

  Michael Chabon

  Hate, Book, Design

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

  Bergen Evans

  Want, Hypothesis, Observation

  The Natural History of Nonsense A Tale of a Tub

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• It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Nice, Years

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• May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there. Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there.

  Claude de la Colombiere

  Jesus, Heart, School

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