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Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Bill Griffith
Community
Imitation
Mindless
Out
Kind
Also
Came
Lot
Unfortunately
Conformity
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Man
Sheep
Wolves
While
Conformity
Race
Credulity
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Charles Bent
Life
God
Prayer
Will
Single
Put
Joyful
Real
End
Get
Human
Conformity
Much
Human Life
Full
Granted
Desire
My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
Gaby Hoffmann
Ego
Mother
Big
Filter
No Boundaries
Totally
Environment
Boundaries
Also
She
Sort
Were
Norm
Lots
Up
Very
Person
Artists
Anybody
Where
Grew
After
Conformity
Who
Unique
Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.
Godfried Danneels
Faith
Sometimes
Example
Too
Intervene
Philosophy
Say
Some
For Example
Catholic
Catholic Faith
Understand
Reducing
Go
Rome
Conformity
Far
Should
Theologians
Universal
There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
Godfried Danneels
Faith
Determination
Easy
About
Something
Vatican
Particular
Make
Catholic
Catholic Faith
Does
Always
Issues
Very
Procedure
Conformity
Theologian
Appear
Raise
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Natural
Law
Stated
Thorough
Ease
Laws
More
Exhibit
Exists
Difference
Which
Conformity
Natural Phenomena
Then
Show
Products
Comparative
Phenomena
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Howard Mumford Jones
Hope
Youth
Will
Lies
Weight
Dead
Revolt
Again
Conformity
Us
Now
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski
Society
Dissent
Our
Several
Lifetime
Been
Died
Which
Conformity
Ever
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
Janos Bolyai
Nature
Blindly
Must
Nor
Model
Any
Formed
Conformity
Violence
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
Jonathan Franzen
People
Feeling
Think
Both
Shame
Vast
Simply
Underneath
Quantities
Cultures
Conform
Conformist
Conformity
Produce
Who
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Jose Manuel Barroso
States
Rules
Member
More
Most
Than
Legislation
Norwegian
Conformity
Union
European
European Union
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
Karel Reisz
Big
Simply
Audience
Regard
Conformity
Element
Desire
I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.
Keith Hernandez
Natural
Tendency
Conformity
Natural Tendency
Resist
My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.
King Tuff
Me
Remember
Took
Out
Brother
See
Him
Dude
Were
Pit
Conformity
Chain
Dad
Swinging
Dragging
I don't know how to thank all the people listening to our music. It's so amazing to come home to my friends who resist conformity, because they're so happy that I've made it.
Lukas Forchhammer
Music
Home
Happy
People
Amazing
Listening
Made
Our
Our Music
Come
Know
Because
How
Friends
Thank
Conformity
Who
Resist
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.
Michele Bachmann
Government
Change
People
World
Real
Been
Lot
The Real World
Real World
Conformity
Really
Growing
Largesse
People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.
Paul Stanley
People
Hypocrisy
Band
Own
Live
Relate
Way
Spirit
Terms
Still
Being
Which
Against
Conformity
Succeed
Successful
Your
If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not that we lack the resources to do things, not that we lack the models, the programs, and the plans, but that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.
Paul Washer
Today
Problem
Christ
Church
Programs
Our
Resources
Say
Would
Look
Greatest
Were
America
Models
Lack
Conformity
Plans
Things
Image
Jesus
Jesus Christ
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust
Fashion
Trust
Fear
Understanding
Before
Own
Action
Danger
Out
Seek
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Never
Taking
Instincts
Sake
Conform
Conformity
Avoid
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
Suzanne Farrell
You
Care
Too Much
Too
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Kind
More
Had
Feel
Like
Looked
Sort
Because
Disciplined
Ballet
Wanted
Conformity
Much
Certain
Required
'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.
Theo James
Day
People
Simple
End Of The Day
Big
Forcing
Archetypes
About
Divergent
Part
Like
Category
Also
Message
Exist
Fit
End
Big Part
Story
Conformity
Who
Multifaceted
Humans
When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.
Trevor Paglen
Democracy
People
Positions
Kind
Willing
Constantly
More
Take
Mass
Understand
Up
Controversial
Conformist
Conformity
Less
Incompatible
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