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• The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

  Martha Beck

  Standards Set, Goal, Way

  Martha Beck (2011). “Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic”, p.116, Harmony

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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Reading, Reality

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• In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos

  Alan Armstrong

  World, Chaos

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• Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

  Dr. Seuss

  Pleasing Others, Mold, Want

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• Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be truly Catholic unless we conform our entire lives to the two commandments that are the essence of the Catholic faith: to love the Lord, our God, with all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Essence, Two, Catholic

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• We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

  Max Black

  Children, Cutting, Fire

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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.

  Michael Dell

  Unhappy, Very Good, Deals

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• I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Play, Trying

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Spiritual, Civilization, Intellectual

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume IX, 1998.

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• Society forces you to conform.

  Ken Wilber

  Force

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• Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Progress, Steps, Recognition

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.17, e-artnow

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• The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interest

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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.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Law, Abuse

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.54, Canongate Books

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• In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Photography, Reality, Objectivity

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• One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton or J. Frederick Smith, I ran the risk of reinforcing negative myths, i.e. that lesbians are women who cannot attract men because they do not conform to society's standard of beauty.

  Tee Corinne

  Beautiful, Men, Risk

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• The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.

  Wayne Grudem

  Taken, Thinking, Expression

  Vern S. Poythress, Wayne A. Grudem (2004). “The TNIV and the Gender-neutral Bible Controversy”, B & H Academic

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• We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Children, Russia, Europe

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted. 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.

  Junot Diaz

  Children, Long, Parent

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• Undoubtedly, there are kids with intellectual deficiencies or neurological problems. But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient only in a willingness to conform to the school pattern.They are just honest, brave kids who say, "I just won't take that, and I don't believe in what you're doing." If you give them an alternative to the usual classroom, they break free of a lot of inhibitions and bad associations, and they begin to learn.

  Seymour Papert

  Believe, School, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Way, Syndromes

  "Down’s Son Is ‘Joy’ for Sally Phillips". The Lady Magazine Interview, www.express.co.uk. April 06, 2011.

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• More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms of our laws, not by the unenacted will of our lawmakers. 'If Congress enacted into law something different from what it intended, then it should amend the statute to conform to its intent.' In the meantime, this Court 'has no roving license ... to disregard clear language simply on the view that ... Congress 'must have intended' something broader.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Men, Views

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• A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Mean, Reality, Imagination

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Believe, Character, Agency

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• The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Character, Men, Expression

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• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  Patrick Stump

  Mean, Safety Pins, Mohawks

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