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• Be good and you will be lonely.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Pressure, Messages

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can help you overcome temptation. You can also help others because they will feel your strength. Let them know about your standards by consistently living themNo one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Mistake, Good Friend

  "Making the Right Choices". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Believe, Empathy, Apathy

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.142

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• Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Boys, Alcohol, Drug

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Peace, Integrity

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Fun, Son

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• Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Blessing, Opportunity

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• He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Lying, Fleas

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.302

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• Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.

  George Sampson

  Selfish, People, Talent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.

  Jack Nicholson

  Media, America, People

  "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.

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• I definitely think there's a lot of pressure for teenaged girls and guys to hook up on prom. I think it comes with the belief that you have to lose your virginity before you go to college. It's a coming of age thing. I think it's really sad because it has nothing to do with what you want and everything to do with peer pressure. But it comes with the territory of prom. Thankfully more and more kids are knowing their limits, and I think we're raising kids to be really good people, and they're realizing that they don't need to do it just because.

  Brittany Snow

  Girl, Kids, College

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• Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.

  O. S. Hawkins

  Girl, Boys, Men

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Graduation, Integrity, Passion

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• The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

  Stendhal

  America, United States, Public Opinion

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Children, Real

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• The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Monday, Real, Done

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• If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Trying, Peers

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• Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Real

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Blame it on Peer Pressure.

  John Marsden

  Pressure, Peers, Blame

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

  Liam Williams

  Eggs, Bird, Preparation

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• Off a cup of C.J. Gibson, man I'm faded off the brown and I'm easily influenced by the niggas I'm around

  Drake

  Real, Drinking, Humble

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• Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Powerful, Decision, Influence

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.

  Po Bronson

  Powerful, Accomplish Your Goals, People

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• Girls have to fight against a lot of the same stuff we did growing up... peer pressure, exploitation, etc. But what worries me the most is this trend that caring about something isn't cool. That it's better to comment on something than to commit to it. That it's so much cooler to be unmotivated and indifferent.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Growing Up, Caring

  "SNL's Amy Poehler: Smart Girls Have More Fun". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.alternet.org. December 2, 2008.

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