Quotes with conform

  • Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • R. Buckland A large body of research results demonstrates that an observer can be persuaded to conform to the majority opinion, even when the majority is completely wrong.
    R. Buckland
     
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  • Carl Sagan All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Vaughan If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Andrew Cohen Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Virginia Woolf Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Margaret Drabble Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Budd Schulberg You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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