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Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.
Category: Conformity Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.
Category: Conformity Author: Author Unknown
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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Category: Conformity Author: Author Unknown
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Category: Conformity Author: Christopher Morley
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You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Category: Conformity Author: Doug Floyd
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Category: Conformity Author: Rita Mae Brown
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Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Category: Conformity Author: Martina Navratilova
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Category: Conformity Author: Colin Wilson
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Category: Conformity Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
Category: Conformity Author: Lydia Maria Child
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Category: Conformity Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
Category: Conformity Author: Albert Einstein
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Category: Conformity Author: Bertrand Russell
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Not all those who wander are lost.
Category: Conformity Author: J R R Tolkien
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Category: Conformity Author: Winston Churchill
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We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Category: Conformity Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Category: Conformity Author: Voltaire
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Category: Conformity Author: J K Galbraith
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Category: Conformity Author: Norman Mailer
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Category: Conformity Author: Mark Twain
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