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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."
Rudyard Kipling
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” -
Adlai Stevenson
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“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
Rita Mae Brown
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“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
James Baldwin
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“Only a very small number of people are truly evil. But a very large number of people are conformists. To prevent evil on a mass scale it’s more important for us to ward against our own instinct to conform with the crowd than it is to worry about anything else."
Claire Lehmann
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