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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.
Wherefore the lexicographer
adviseth a striving toward the
straiter [sic] resemblance of the
Average Man than he hath to
himself. Whoso attaineth thereto
shall have peace, the prospect of
death and the hope of Hell.
Ambrose Bierce
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Pop music allows you to be
who you are without having
to wear a social uniform or to
conform, which some people
find impossible to do.
Siobhan Fahey
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I'm not going to change the way I
look or the way I feel to conform to
anything. I've always been a freak.
So I've been a freak all my life and I
have to live with that, you know. I'm
one of those people.
John Lennon
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REWARD FOR
CONFORMITY
IS THAT
EVERYONE
LIKES YOU
EXCEPT
YOURSELF
RITA BROWN
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"ONCE CONFORM, ONCE DO WHAT OTHERS DO
BECAUSE THEY DO A KIND OF
LETHARGY STEALS OVER ALL THE FINER
SENSES OF THE SOUL."
MICHELDE MONTAIGNE
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CONFORMITY
When People Are Free To Do As They Please,
They Usually Imitate Each Other
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The trouble with this
world is that
everybody has to
compromise and
conform
Tennessee W///iams
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in
bunches. You rarely find a
nonconformist who goes it alone.
And woe to him inside a
nonconformist clique who does not
conform with nonconformity.
Eric Hoffer
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I CANNOT CHANGE THE
WORLD, BUT I DO NOT
HAVE TO CONFORM
MARVA COLLINS
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"ONCE CONFORM, ONCE DO WHAT OTHER
PEOPLE DO BECAUSE THEY DO IT, AND A
OVER ALL THE FINER
OF THE SOUL. SHE
BECOMES ALVOUTE(SHOW AND INWARD
INDIFFERENT!'
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REALITY DOES
NOT CONFORM
TO THE IDEAL,
BUT CONFIRMS
Gustave Flaubert
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ONCE CONFORM, ONCE
DO WHAT OTHERS DO
BECAUSE THEY DO IT,
AND A KIND OF
LETHARGY STEALS
OVER ALL THE FINER
SENSES OF THE SOUL.
MONTAIGNE
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I'm not going to change the way I
look or the way I feel to conform
to anything. I've always been a
freak. So I've been a freak all my
life and I have to live with that,
you know. I'm one of those
people.
John Lennon
English musician,
singer and songwriter
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"SOME PEOPLE WISH ABOVE ALL TO CONFORM
TO THE RULES, I WISH ONLY TO RENDER WHAT I
CAN HEAR. THERE IS NO THEORY. YOU HAVE
ONLY TO LISTEN. PLEASURE IS THE LAW."
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
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REALITY DOES
NOT CONFORM
TO THE IDEAL,
BUT CONFIRMS
IT.
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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
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YOURSELVES TO
THE STANDARDS OF
THIS WORLD
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DO NOT BE CONFORMED
TO THIS WORLD
BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY
THE RENEWAL OF YOUR MIND
THAT BY TESTING
YOU MAY DISCERN
WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD
WHAT IS GOOD
AND ACCEPTABLE
AND PERFECT
ROMANS 12:2
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I'M NOT GOING TO
CONFORM TO SOME
CONSUMER NEED
BILLIE JOE ARIMSTRONG
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Once conform, once do
what others do because
they do it, and a kind
of lethargy steals
over all the finer
senses of the soul.
- Montaigne
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Rhettrosexual
[re-troh-sek-shoo-uh-l] noun
An individual who is
characterized by or conforming
to old school style while
staying suave.
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I think a lot of people
have lost respect for the
individual, you know, the
individual, the person who
doesn't conform.
Erykah Badu
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Extroversion is an
enormously appealing
personality style, but we've
turned it into an oppressive
standard to which most of us
feel we must conform.
Susan Cain
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I don't
believe we
were put here
with all of our
differences
to confom
to a uniform
state of
mind.
SONYA
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AN INDIVIDUAL
BE DIFFERENT
AND DON'T ACCEPT
ANYTHING
WITHOUT
QUESTIONING
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THE
NON-CONFORMITY
SET OWN LIVE LIFE
RULES YOU WANT
CHANGE
THE WORLD
CHRIS GUILLEBEAU
Creator of the online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination"
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If you truly expect to
realize your dreams,
abandon the need for blanket
approval. If conforming to
everyone's expectations is the
number one goal, you have
sacrificed your uniqueness, and
therefore your excellence.
Hope Solo
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"l JUST DON'T CONFORM VERY WELL."
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If you truly expect to
realize your dreams,
abandon the need for blanket
approval. If conforming to
everyone's expectations is the
number one goal, you have
sacrificed your uniqueness, and
therefore your excellence.
Hope Solo
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CONFORM MY
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PLEASING YOU.
LIFE.
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Conformity is the jailer of
freedom and the enemy of
growth.
John F. Kennedy
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in
order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.
(Marcel Duchamp)
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Men cannot make
Scripture conform to
their lifestyle; they
must make their
lifestyle conform to
Scripture.
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Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. Votes: 5

Edwin Louis Cole
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. Votes: 5

Erykah Badu
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. Votes: 5

Bill Vaughan
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. Votes: 5

Alexander Hamilton
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. Votes: 5

David Bohm
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Votes: 5

Virginia Woolf
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Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. Votes: 5

Martin Van Buren
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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. Votes: 5

Dennis Prager
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. Votes: 5

John Lennon
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. Votes: 5

Steven Brust
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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Votes: 5

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Conform, go crazy, or become an artist. Votes: 3

Nancy Springer
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. Votes: 3

Gustave Flaubert
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. Votes: 3

Marcel Duchamp
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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform. Votes: 3

Sandra Bullock
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. Votes: 3

John Lennon
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. Votes: 3

Woodrow Wilson
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Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely. Votes: 3

Doris Janzen Longacre
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. Votes: 3

Bertrand Russell
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Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive. Votes: 3

Sun Tzu
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You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going Votes: 3

Budd Schulberg
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne
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It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct. Votes: 3

Frederick Scott Oliver
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I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business. Votes: 3

Juliana Hatfield
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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. Votes: 3

Thomas Merton
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. Votes: 3

Harold Rosenberg
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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. Votes: 3

Claude Debussy
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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. Votes: 3

Shakti Gawain
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The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds. Votes: 3

Gerald Stanley Lee
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. Votes: 2

Billie Joe Armstrong
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The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. Votes: 2

Noam Chomsky
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The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness. Votes: 2

Vincent Nichols
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I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it. Votes: 2

Rosie Perez
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We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. Votes: 2

Evan Davis
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I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything. Votes: 2

Adele
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to. Votes: 2

M. Night Shyamalan
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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. Votes: 2

Andrew Cohen
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A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way. Votes: 2

Khloe Kardashian
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I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like. Votes: 2

Moby
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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. Votes: 2

Sonakshi Sinha
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices. Votes: 2

Harry Browne
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The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations. Votes: 2

Sebastian Junger
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The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation. Votes: 2

Ben Carson
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You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else. Votes: 2

Rufus Wainwright
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Society forces you to conform. Votes: 0

Ken Wilber
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I just don't conform very well. Votes: 0

Shelby Lynne
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To conform is to lose your soul Votes: 0

Joshua Ferris
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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Women punish themselves for the failure to conform. Votes: 0

Sandra Bartky
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Great intimates conform to you...not you to them Votes: 0

Rhonda Shear
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To conform to a sick society is to become sick. Votes: 0

Richard J. Foster
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Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed. Votes: 0

Giambattista Vico
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Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. Votes: 0

Tomas Kalnoky
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What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Rumi
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I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform. Votes: 0

Marva Collins
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One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. Votes: 0

Robert Musil
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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln
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Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts. Votes: 0

Margaret Drabble
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We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality. Votes: 0

Robert Anthony
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Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform. Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams
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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true Votes: 0

William James
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no one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family ... Votes: 0

Barbra Streisand
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Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values. Votes: 0

L. Tom Perry
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free. Votes: 0

Sally Phillips
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What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires. Votes: 0

Os Guinness
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I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2. Votes: 0

Amber Riley
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God's Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. Votes: 0

Mark Dever
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Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ. Votes: 0

Paula White
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In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors. Votes: 0

Kenneth Patchen
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A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it. Votes: 0

Kelley Armstrong
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The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Votes: 0

Howard G. Hendricks
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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. Votes: 0

Romola Garai
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Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives. Votes: 0

Pope Francis
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The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal. Votes: 0

Fulton J. Sheen
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Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature Votes: 0

Wayne Grudem
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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here. Votes: 0

Tony Blair
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I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform, Votes: 0

Justin Townes Earle
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In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos Votes: 0

Alan Armstrong
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I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. Votes: 0

Billy Carter
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Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be. Votes: 0

Dr. Seuss
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It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations. Votes: 0

Carlos Castaneda
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The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms. Votes: 0

Thomas Sowell
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I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. Votes: 0

Stella Young
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Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson
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We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. Votes: 0

Damian Loeb
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A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. Votes: 0

Bruce Tulgan
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Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand. Votes: 0

Carl Sagan
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Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. Votes: 0

Bill Bryson
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The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. Votes: 0

Cinda Williams Chima
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Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts. Votes: 0

Brigid Schulte
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In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform. Votes: 0

John Ralston Saul
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A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. Votes: 0

Lawrence M. Krauss
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The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. Votes: 0

Mike Lofgren
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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. Votes: 0

James Reston
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Votes: 0

Kenneth L. Pike
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Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist. Votes: 0

Kim Wilkins
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It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. Votes: 0

Robert E. Lee
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We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform. Votes: 0

Ralph Lauren
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The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. Votes: 0

Theodor Schwenk
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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray
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Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor
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This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. Votes: 0

James Reston
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Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. Votes: 0

Pope Francis
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Votes: 0

Kenneth Lee Pike
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins
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If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal. Votes: 0

Michael Dell
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Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder
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In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice. Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody. Votes: 0

Aimee Teegarden
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All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions. Votes: 0

Carl Sagan
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When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness. Votes: 0

Dale Archer
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You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy. Votes: 0

Johnny Marr
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. Votes: 0

U.G. Krishnamurti
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Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. Votes: 0

Thomas a Kempis
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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. Votes: 0

William P. Young
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Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. Votes: 0

Chris Guillebeau
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That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. Votes: 0

Archibald MacLeish
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It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. Votes: 0

Kate DiCamillo
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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. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson
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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. Votes: 0

Micah Stampley
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform. Votes: 0

Margaret Mead
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads. Votes: 0

Adyashanti
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Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. Votes: 0

Susan Cain
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The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle
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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. Votes: 0

Maureen Duffy
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint." Votes: 0

Alexander Hamilton
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Votes: 0

Alexander Hamilton
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The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne
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Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson
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It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform. Votes: 0

Leighton Meester
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The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform. Votes: 0

Frank Pavone
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We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else. Votes: 0

Junot Diaz
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I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are. Votes: 0

Lindsey Stirling
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. Votes: 0

Paul Cezanne
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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? Votes: 0

Thomas Merton
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I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable. Votes: 0

Emmanuelle Seigner
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt
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I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Bill Maher
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I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous. Votes: 0

Georgia Jagger
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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval. Votes: 0

Mark Twain
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I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous. Votes: 0

Georgia May Jagger
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis
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The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform. Votes: 0

Peter Senge
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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. Votes: 0

Jillian Medoff
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Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions. Votes: 0

Imagawa Sadayo
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Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future. Votes: 0

Immortal Technique
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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do. Votes: 0

Siobhan Fahey
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People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule. Votes: 0

Jonathan Evison
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The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution. Votes: 0

Arthur Keith
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Leadership is about making and maintaining a positive change. True leaders do not conform to the limits of the environments they stay in; the transform it positively! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor
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Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual. Votes: 0

Anita Roddick
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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. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt
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It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will. Votes: 0

Howard G. Hendricks
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Don't just conform; ask questions.Don't just believe if it isn't your truth.Don't follow dogma; it is blindness.Just love; don't kill to go to heaven. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha
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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. Votes: 0

Andre Gide
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar. Votes: 0

Elsie de Wolfe
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it. Votes: 0

Thomas Pynchon
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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm. Votes: 0

Ken Robinson
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Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it. Votes: 0

Lenny Kravitz
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The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world. Votes: 0

Bijan
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[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence. Votes: 0

Carl Mitcham
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A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history. Votes: 0

Rachel Holmes
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The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. Votes: 0

Thomas Cleary
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True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. Votes: 0

Robert McAfee Brown
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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. Votes: 0

Euripides
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We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort. Votes: 0

Piero Ferrucci
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Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people are not somehow behaving themselves properly. Votes: 0

W. Brian Arthur
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Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge instead of a suitor. Votes: 0

Kavita Kané
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There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform. Votes: 0

John Elder Robison
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. Votes: 0

Quentin Crisp
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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 . Votes: 0

John Stott
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Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful. Votes: 0

Margaret Heffernan
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I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy. Votes: 0

Rebel Wilson
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To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn. Votes: 0

Giuseppe Mazzini
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer
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For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God. Votes: 0

R. C. Sproul
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu
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However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan. Votes: 0

Walter J. Phillips
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Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality. Votes: 0

Lakhdar Brahimi
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. Votes: 0

Damian Loeb
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Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real. Votes: 0

Alexandra Robbins
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I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful. Votes: 0

Demi Lovato
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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. Votes: 0

Saul Williams
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You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity. Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle
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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. Votes: 0

Daisaku Ikeda
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Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself. Votes: 0

Jeremy Enigk
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations. Votes: 0

Confucius
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When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free. Votes: 0

Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain. Votes: 0

Hugo Black
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Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. Votes: 0

Liz Phair
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I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary. Votes: 0

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them. Votes: 0

Mary Roach
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Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices. Votes: 0

Evita Ochel
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When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform. Votes: 0

Jennifer Armintrout
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The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life. Votes: 0

Maria Montessori
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It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do. Votes: 0

Bo Derek
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I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive. Votes: 0

Robert Redford
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In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious. Votes: 0

James G. Watt
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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. Votes: 0

Jay Samit
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As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world. Votes: 0

Mark Leyner
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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. Votes: 0

Benedict Fitzgerald
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I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people. Votes: 0

Bethany Hamilton
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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. Votes: 0

Camille Paglia
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The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out. Votes: 0

Adam Lambert
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Queridos jóvenes, no os conforméis con menos que la Verdad y el Amor, no os conforméis con menos que Cristo

Benedicto XVI
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I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

Michel de Montaigne
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It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

Bill Vaughan
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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
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We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

Bertrand Russell
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I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

Jami Floyd
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I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

Alan Redpath
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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

Andrew Weil
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I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.

Ismail Kadaré
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I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

William Carlos Williams
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We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is that standard.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Joseph Joubert
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Boys' connections"”to other people and to their selves"”can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

Judy Chu
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...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive reforms that conform to the realities of the era in which we live.

Ronald Reagan
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Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.

Sun Tzu
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So, I think there's a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn't conform to formula. But I think it comes down to money and they just don't know where it's going if they haven't got any precedent.

Colin Firth
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If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

King James I
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Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.

John Owen
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As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.

Junot Diaz
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When I was growing up, you had to conform and do the same thing that everyone else was doing. I would just go home and make music and be able to make myself happy, but I know that's more of a challenge for some people.

Charlie Puth
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History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.

Claude Bowers
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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
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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
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But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

Howard Zinn
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The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

Peter Drucker
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We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

Marianne Williamson
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

Abdallah II
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But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

Felicity Jones
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If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.

Immanuel Velikovsky
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It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Timothy Pickering
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The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

Samuel Johnson
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Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

William Blackstone
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Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.

Joaquin Fuster
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The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

Moby
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Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

Bill McCartney
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From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
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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
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If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.

Catherine Ponder
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The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.

Marcel Proust
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I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

William O. Douglas
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Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize your life.. Do not conform to the emptiness, the sadness, breakdown, failure, weakness...instead REVOLUTIONIZE your life & CONQUER your circumstances.

Mirtha Michelle
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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
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