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"Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path."	Author Unknown
"Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions."	Author Unknown
"Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up."	Author Unknown
"If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got."	Author Unknown
"Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes."	Edgar Watson Howe
"Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause."	Clarence Darrow
"Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions."	George Santayana
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common."	Satchel Paige
"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom."	George Bernard Shaw
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."	George Bernard Shaw
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own."	Michael Korda
"Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."	John F. Kennedy
"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."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."	Katherine Hepburn
"The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."	Ayn Rand
"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
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