For a majority of the people, there is an innate tendency to abide by particular groups. Without the close confines of a group, they feel naked and vulnerable. Group offers security and solace to people. And for those who are too weak to stand up for themselves can conform to others instead opinion instead of voicing their own. However, there are also very few people who do not subscribe to the herd mentality. They prefer to challenge the decisions of others and put across their own opinion. Such people are nonconformists. Thus, it generally happens that nonconformists become leaders leading the conformists. The conformity/nonconformity quotes will clear the matter further.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
Val Kilmer |
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. Feynman |
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Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman |
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham |
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Jeremy Bentham |
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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley |
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You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
Richard Branson |
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Katherine Mansfield |
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I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
Noel Coward |
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
Meryl Streep |
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I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson |
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes |
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Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler |
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We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes |
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
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My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
Al Pacino |
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
Paul Auster |
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If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
Peter Sellers |
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston |
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The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales
Howard Stern |
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She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.
Bob Hope |
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May |
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
Hank Aaron |
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself .
Queen Victoria |
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria |
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron |
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams |
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Earl Nightingale |
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The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph Stalin |
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I trust no one, not even myself.
Joseph Stalin |
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams |
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People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.
Steve Nash |
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?.
Langston Hughes |
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?.
Larry Bird |
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
J. Lubbock |
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
Alan Rickman |
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
Elliott Smith |
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
George Jackson |
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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell |
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I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.
P. J. Harvey |
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Alexandre Dumas |
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Chinua Achebe |
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh |
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Rene Magritte |
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I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
Ben Stiller |
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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Elizabeth Stone |
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Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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