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"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist."	J(ean) Paul Getty
"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and [the] fragments of stupidity."	Vartan Gregorian
"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong."	James Leo Herlihy
"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
"Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."	Eric Hoffer
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."	Charles Evans Hughes
"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."	Johann Huizinga
"Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals."	Richard F. Lovelace
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness."	Archibald MacLeish
"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."	Christa McAuliffe
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."	Mignon McLaughlin
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."	Kathleen Norris
"Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one."	Elbert Hubbard
"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."	H.G. Wells
"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
"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
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."	Mark Twain
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