#conform

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. ↗

— Carl Van Doren

#credulity #man #race #sheep #while

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

#desire #end #full #get #god

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

#allows #always #appear #catholic #catholic faith

I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

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Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. ↗

— Liz Phair

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