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• If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

  Andy Rooney

  Hurt, Ideas, People

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• An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

  Andre Gide

  Important, Trying, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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• I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

  Billy Carter

  Brother, People, President

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• If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Majority, Minorities

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.592

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• When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Frustration

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• In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

  John Ralston Saul

  Doubt, Doe, Ridiculous

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Men, Land

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• Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Acceptance, World Religions

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

  Jay Samit

  Past, Vision, Up To You

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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

  Rumi

  Law, Together, Doe

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• Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.

  Adam Lambert

  "Adam Lambert on His Sexuality: 'Keep Speculating'". Interview with Aaron Parsley, people.com. May 27, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had to accept that I was only the vehicle for the system expressing its own desire for simplicity. My vision could shape initial direction, and my attention to the desires of the code could affect how quickly and how well the system found its desired shape, but the system is riding me much more than I am riding the system.

  Kent Beck

  Giving Up, Simple, Ideas

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• Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.

  Micah Stampley

  Christian, Heart, Mind

  Song: Take My Life

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• The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

  Dave Smalley

  Life, Strong, Acceptance

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• Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Risk, Outcast

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.42, A&C Black

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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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• 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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