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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
Author: Glen Beaman
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The most damaging phrase in the language is: ‘It’s always been done that way.’
Author: Grace Hopper
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
Author: H.G. Wells, Crux Ansata
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Author: Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)
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Crossing over the boundaries we’ve been taught to live within is a tough business. But I’m getting the idea they’re not so formidable.
Author: Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
Author: John Cage
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Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
Author: Lydia Maria Child
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Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Author: Martina Navratilova
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Author: Max Beerbohm
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Author: Norman Mailer
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can’t be thwarted.
Author: Orson Scott Card
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Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
Author: Paul Vixie
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