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• Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

  An Na

  People, Identity, Trying

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• The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

  Ken Robinson

  Being Yourself, Elements, Compulsion

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• A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.

  Mark Dever

  Perfect, Healthy, Church

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• The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Usage, Force

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

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• Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans.

  Barack Obama

  War, Tough, Headlines

  "Transcript of President Obama’s Commencement Address at West Point", www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2014.

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• At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

  Sean Parker

  People, Groups, Social

  "Friending the New York Scene" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

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• Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Law, Needs, Pieces

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• In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

  Kamala Harris

  Doe, Needs, Hook

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

  Giambattista Vico

  Men, Government, He Man

  Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.154, Cornell University Press

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• Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

  Wallace Stegner

  Lying, Mean, Fiction

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.163, Modern Library

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• For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands.

  Jonathan Turley

  Party, School, Reality

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• I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

  Christina Hendricks

  Kids, Hair, People

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• So, I think there's a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn't conform to formula. But I think it comes down to money and they just don't know where it's going if they haven't got any precedent.

  Colin Firth

  Fall, Thinking, Stuff

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Perfectly Good, Sheep

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• I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

  Lindsey Stirling

  Loving Yourself, Want, Accepted

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• Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Views, Atheism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley”

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• It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.

  Leighton Meester

  Being Yourself, Successful, Worry

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• Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they may otherwise learn to discount or overlook. We can also offer and model for them definitions of maturity, masculinity, health and success that will enable them to remain grounded in their self-knowledge (e.g. as they encounter societal pressures to conform to group and cultural norms), and to form relationships that will sustain rather than constrain them.

  Judy Chu

  Maturity, Boys, Self

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• Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

  Grant Morrison

  Running, Children, Real

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• Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

  Erich Fromm

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

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• Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

  Sandra Bartky

  Inspirational, Failure, Punishment

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• The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;
  the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sensual, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.34, Library of America

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• Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

  Timothy Pickering

  Jesus, Omission, May

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• Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

  Tony Blair

  Tolerance, Britain

  "Radical Muslims must integrate, says Blair" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2006.

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• Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Past

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