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We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. – Charles Dudley Warner

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Keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out. – Walter Kotschnig, c.1940

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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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

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