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• To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  Irving Wallace

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Fear

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• The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Diversity, Doe, Needs

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.11, Book Tree

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• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  Euripides

  Men, Public Opinion, Earth

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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  It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press

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• The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Men, Majority

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3928, Delphi Classics

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• My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.

  Marquis de Sade

  Thinking, Reflection, Fool

  "Letters from Prison".

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• Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

  Steve Toltz

  Children, Jumping, Bridges

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.529, Spiegel & Grau

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• One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.

  Hans Hartung

  Able, Oneself, Non Conformity

  Hans Hartung, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1975). “Hans Hartung: Paintings, 1971-1975 : [exhibition], October 16, 1975-January 4, 1976 : [catalogue].”, p.25, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Abnormal, Matter

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.3, 谷月社

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• Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

  Ken Danby

  Answers, Next, My Favorite

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• All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

  Lee Krasner

  Moving, Swings, Pendulums

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Wise, Dull, Fool

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• Conformity is the ape of harmony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Apes, Harmony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.492, Harvard University Press

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• Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Long, Perfect, Too Much

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.200, Routledge

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• ...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Growing Up, Future

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Real, Desire

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• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  Wendy O. Williams

  Hate, People, Bored

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

  Godfried Danneels

  Philosophy, Rome, Catholic

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• Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

  Bill Griffith

  Community, Kind, Imitation

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• I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Earth, Misery

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• How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hate, I Hate, Dedicated

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• I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Body, Fancy

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Inspirational, Writing, Giving

  Espana, 20 Nov. 1920

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• The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Sep 01, 2014

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• God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and you'll be Saved. There's nothing more to it.' It ignores the Whole Counsel of God, which speaks of Repenting from former Sins, of Taking up your Cross, of being conformed to the Image of Christ by the refining work of the Holy Spirit. It is totally silent about the Reality of Hell and an After-Death Judgment.

  David Wilkerson

  Death, God, Faith

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