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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then
go with the drove. Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something
recognized as authority. |
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| Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
reform (or pause and reflect). - Notebook, 1904 In morals, conduct, and beliefs we take the color of our environment and associations, and it is a color that can be safely warranted to wash. - "Is Shakespeare Dead?" Broadly speaking corn-pone stands for self-approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of others. Conformity is the result. Corn-pone is confor{mity}. Sometimes it has a sordid business interest back of it and is calculated: but mainly is it unconscious and not calculated. - note on newspaper clipping of 18 February 1901; quoted in Mark Twain: God's Fool, Hamlin Hill |
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