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"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."	John Martin Fischer
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
"Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again."	Herman Hesse
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."	Charles Evans Hughes
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."	Albert Einstein
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."	Ambrose Bierce
"Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common."	Satchel Paige
"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself."	Rita Mae Brown
"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."	Walt Whitman
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."	Albert Einstein
"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong."	James Leo Herlihy
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."	Mignon McLaughlin
"Conform and be dull."	James Frank Dobie
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind."	Edward Albee
"Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!"	Elizabeth Barret Browning
"Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."	John F. Kennedy
"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence."	Barbara Cook
"When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations."	Shakti Gawain
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."	Mark Twain
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Edgar Watson Howe	Edward Albee	Elbert Hubbard
Elizabeth Barret Browning	Eric Hoffer	Felix Adler
George Bernard Shaw	George Santayana	George Chapman
Herman Hesse	H.G. Wells	James Frank Dobie
James Leo Herlihy	Johann Huizinga	John F. Kennedy
John Amatt	John Martin Fischer	J(ean) Paul Getty
Katherine Hepburn	Kathleen Norris	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Mark Twain	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Michael Korda
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mignon McLaughlin	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard F. Lovelace	Rita Mae Brown
Roger Anderson	Satchel Paige	Shakti Gawain
Thomas Babington	Tony Bennet	T. S. Eliot
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