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• I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Thinking, Ideas, Perfect

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• For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Justice, Use

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.289, Best Books on

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• Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Winning, Law, Ideas

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• In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

  John Ralston Saul

  Doubt, Doe, Ridiculous

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Progress Of Society, Legislation

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.684, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

  Jay Samit

  Past, Vision, Up To You

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Order, Miracle

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.

  Orlan

  Moving, Eye, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Conceited, Ignorant

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].”, p.49

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• Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to Your image in every area of my life’? Or has your bitterness taken root, turning into rebellion and hardness of heart? Have you learned to shield yourself from the convicting voice of God’s Spirit?

  David Wilkerson

  Sweet, Jesus, Taken

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• When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Frustration

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• I just don't conform very well.

  Shelby Lynne

  Wells

  "An everyday tale of country folk". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.

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• For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Media, Korea, Years

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• Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
  Do Justice
  Learn from the World Community
  Nurture People
  Cherish the Natural Order
  Non-Conform Freely.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Order, Justice

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• I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.

  William Ashworth

  Nature, Rain, Reality

  William Ashworth (1978). “The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness”

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• Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

  L. Tom Perry

  Our Actions, Value Systems, Values

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• Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Ideas, People

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• Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Reality, Art Is

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• A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Wise, Good Life

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• There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.

  Imagawa Sadayo

  Men, Evil, Water

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• That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gone

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book IV, Chapter 45), circa 170.

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• The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Principles, Modern Life, World

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Doe, Gods Will

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