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• Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations.

  Benedict Fitzgerald

  Country, Dark, Age

  "Nerve Regeneration, Lithium, Alzheimer’s Protection & the War on Medical Freedom". Moneychanger interview, the-moneychanger.com. April 2015.

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• Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Quality, Doe, Patterns

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

  Rumi

  Law, Together, Doe

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• When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, Being A Woman

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Lying, Fall

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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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• We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fighting, Unique, Style

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• Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Influence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.87

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• Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

  Edmund Burke

  Pride, Thinking, Order

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Servant Of God, Tides

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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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• 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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• New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

  Roger von Oech

  Ideas, Environment, Born

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• I believe that family is closer to God's heart than anything else, the support system he has given us to build us up in faith, and to support us when we falter. If we want our family lives to conform to God's will, Jesus must be our priority, our focal point, in our home as well as in our ministries.
  That doesn't mean that it's always easy to live together: home can be the hardest place to live a Christian life. That's were people see us when we're tired and our defences are down.

  Angus Buchan

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

  Olivia Wilde

  Thinking, People, Care

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• In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

  Sonakshi Sinha

  Eye, Perfect, Effort

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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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• If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

  Anita Baker

  Thinking, Style, Doing You

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