"When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away."
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"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."
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"Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
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"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns."
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"The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions."
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"You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self."
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"The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible."
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"As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that."
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"I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity"
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"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."
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"Our expenses are all for conformity."
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"There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies."
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"I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still."
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"When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong."
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"Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion."
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"The virtue in most request is conformity."
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"Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion."
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"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."
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"The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."
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"We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest."
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