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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Color, Brain

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• The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Sep 01, 2014

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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

  Breathing, Long, Grace

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• Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving Up, Fear, War

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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• In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

  Randolph Bourne

  Country, War, Father

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• I don't care much about conforming.

  Mayim Bialik

  Care, I Don't Care, Don't Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

  "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger, (p. 19), 1961.

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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.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Character, Trying, Events

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Slow Learner”, p.9, Penguin

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• Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

  Nancy Springer

  Crazy, Artist

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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.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Daughter, Father, Expectations

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

  William Maxwell

  Memories, Lying, Emotional

  William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.28, Random House

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• It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

  David Levithan

  Valentine, Usual, Three

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

  Robert Musil

  Age, Baseness, Neurotic

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• The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

  Jon Katz

  Real, Heart, Giving

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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.

  William P. Young

  Strong, Thinking, Use

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Fall, Artist, Civilization

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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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.

  Harry Browne

  Giving Up, Mean, Choices

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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.

  Evan Davis

  Behaviour, Cheat, Accepted

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• The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

  Mark Haddon

  Character, Creating, Way

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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.

  Adam Lambert

  Taken, Idols, Work Out

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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.

  Moby

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Interview With Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. June 2, 1999.

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• School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

  Dan Savage

  School, Goes On, Firsts

  "Dan Savage on 'The Commitment'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2005.

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• Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

  Charles Stanley

  Son, Grace, Tools

  Charles Stanley (2002). “The Gift of Forgiveness”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Artist, Degrees, Answers

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