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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. – Colin Wilson

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Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means youre being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy. – Colin Wilson

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

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You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same. – Daniel Knode

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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