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Quote by Carl Sandburg
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.” – Carl Sandburg

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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Conformity

If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Conformity

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. – Lydia Maria Child

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Conformity

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. – William H. Mauldin

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Conformity

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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on. – Thomas Hardy

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. – Greil Marcus

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The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordons gin; out of any businessmans life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine. – William Bolitho

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Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. – William Osler

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