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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

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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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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. ↗

— Sean Parker

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There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. ↗

— Sean Parker

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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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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. ↗

— Amy Tan

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