"The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike."

Duras, Marguerite on relationship
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"Conform and be dull."

Doble, J. Frank on conformity
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"The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible."

Baldwin, James on conformity   

"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."

Einstein, Albert on conformity
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"I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike."

Gauvreau, Emile Henry on conformity   

"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."

Hoffer, Eric on conformity
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"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

Riesman, David on conformity   

"As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course."

Thoreau, Henry David on conformity
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"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."

Voltaire on conformity
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"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."

Woolf, Virginia on conformity
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"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."

Daly, Jeff on communication
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"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

Dickens, Charles on communication
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

Shaw, George Bernard on voting
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on appearance
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire on evil
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"Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness."

Voltaire on exaggeration
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature."

Voltaire on faults
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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

Voltaire on fate
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"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire on freedom
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"My life is a battle."

Voltaire on life
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"Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism."

Voltaire on originality
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"Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel."

Voltaire on passion
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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time."

Voltaire on patience
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire on prejudice
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"The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless."

Voltaire on punishment
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"Self-love is the instrument of our preservation."

Voltaire on love
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"I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race."

Voltaire on service
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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire on speech   

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

Voltaire on tears
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

Gibran, Kahlil on desire
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"Know what you want. Become your real self."

Fink, David Harold on desire
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"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on arrogance
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"I don't like fuckfaces or arrogant ratiocinations. What I do like is dual-meaning words in poems."

Dye, James on arrogance   

"Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people."

Baruch, Bernard M. on art   

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."

Beecher, Henry Ward on art   

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on art
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"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."

Chopra, Deepak on art
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"I wear my heart on my sleeve."

Diana, Princess of Wales on art
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"It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?"

Diana, Princess of Wales on art   

"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."

Eckhart, Meister on art
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