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• God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, "Be still and know that I am God!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Song, Expectations, Trying

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• I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?

  Irshad Manji

  Responsibility, Challenges, Islam

  "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.

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• A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.

  Lewis Mumford

  Distance, Class, People

  "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford, p. 486, 1961.

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• I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

  Andy Kaufman

  Voice, People, Giving

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• Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Anxious Thoughts, Giving

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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.

  Maureen Duffy

  People, Labels, Patterns

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• There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

  Max Eastman

  Men, Opinion, Cease

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

  Sandra Bullock

  Long, Accomplish, Realised

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• God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Children, Names

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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.

  Demi Lovato

  Beautiful, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Inward, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.35

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• I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

  Amber Riley

  Beauty, Hurt, Crazy

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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

  Mistake, Writing, Past

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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.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Music, Ideas, Ideals

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• Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dance, Silly, People

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• Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.

  Sam Storms

  Knowing, Arrogant, Dimensions

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• Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Animal, Men

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• Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.394

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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

  Believe, Reality, Law

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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.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Judgement, Emotion

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Reality, Expectations, Mind

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Warrior Heir”, p.152, Hachette UK

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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.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Ideas, Failing, Used

  Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.149, Penguin

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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

  Powerful, Lying, Historical

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.162, Beacon Press

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• Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Fighting, People, Perfect

  "Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy". Book by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 1994.

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