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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

  Unique, Doe, Unattainable

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Quality, Doe, Patterns

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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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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

  Mark Dever

  People, Instruments, Chosen

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• What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Use, Manipulation

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• Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Doe, Way, Holy

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.116, Fig

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• But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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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.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Mom, Effort, Trying

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• A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything... What they don't tell you, and are maybe unaware of, is that they are allowed to write freely because their beliefs conform to the... standard doctrinal system, and then, yes, they are allowed to write freely and are not coerced.

  Noam Chomsky

  Writing, Thinking, Media

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  Damian Loeb

  Art, Directors, Ideals

  "Damian Loeb Brings Hyperrealism To Another Level (NSFW PHOTOS)", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Blood, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

  Rachel Holmes

  Nice, Pleasing Others, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Rachel Holmes

  Bangs, Biographies, Individual

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted.

  Paul Goodman

  Stupid, Kids, Boys

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.21, New York Review of Books

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• We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

  Christian Wiman

  Should, Suspicious, Inclination

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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

  Jesus, Focus, Purpose

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• Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

  Andy Rooney

  Mean, Civilization, May

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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

  Being Yourself, Encouragement, Self Esteem

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them. Indeed, I have reason to suspect myself on this head; and each year, as the tax-gatherer comes round, I find myself disposed to review the acts and position of the general and State governments, and the spirit of the people, to discover a pretext for conformity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Hair, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.107, Bantam Classics

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• It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Expectations, Stupidity

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Power of Silence”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Peter Senge

  Lying, Organization, Differences

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.34, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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