Ben Carson

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

American Scientist

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

English Musician

Jessie Buckley

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.

Irish Musician

Lachlan Watson

If you're building a fantasy world that exists outside of the rules of our real world, why would you write it to conform to the rules and binaries that we have today? Why still limit yourself?

American Actor

Thomas Merton

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

American Author

Erykah Badu

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

American Musician

Edwin Louis Cole

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Noam Chomsky

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

American Activist

Sean Durkin

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

American Director

Chris Thile

My life conforms to music, not the other way around.

Conform can imply changing behavior to fit in with a group.

Social Pressure

Sometimes, 'conform' suggests a lack of individuality or submission.

Negative Connotation

Conformity is often driven by the influence of peers and social circles.

Peer Influence

'Conform' indicates a change to achieve similarity with a standard or example.

Similarity

Conforming often means aligning with a pre-existing format or system.

Alignment

In legal contexts, 'conform' stresses the necessity to follow regulations.

Legal Obligation

Conforming implies compliance often with formal or bureaucratic requirements.

Compliance

To conform can mean to force someone or something to fit a particular mold.

Forced Adaptation

Conforming can result in creating uniformity or eliminating differences.

Uniformity

 every day, everywhere around us, and yet, in most parts of the world, we do not have a single drug on the market that uses this principle to combat bacterial infections? The simple answer no one has developed this kind of a drug yet, at least not one that conforms to the Western regulatory standards that set the norm for so much of the world.

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 The anti-hero struggles to conform, all the while starting to object, perhaps finding other outsiders with whom to voice his questions, and naïvely, unwisely, sharing those questions with an authority figure. The anti-hero openly challenges society, and tries to fight against the lies and tactics used to oppress the populace.

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 And I can bring that around, put that up there. Obviously, this is a standard keyboard, but of course I can rescale it to make it work well for my hands. That's really important, because there's no reason in this day and age that we should be conforming to a physical device.

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 conformities a fascinating topic for a variety of reasons for one we live in a society that encourages individualistic thinking it encourages us to find our own voice and to follow our passion yet there's pervasive pressures all around us encouraging us to conform to follow

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 are trying to allocate resources in order to protect the biosphere. Going way out, dark matter conforms to the same mycelial archetype. I believe matter begets life; life becomes single cells; single cells become strings;

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 "I want them to feel like they don't have to conceal what they love or who they are to conform". This is Kameryn's wish for the girls she coaches as a figure skater and life role model,

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 you conform to the host nation's stereotype of you, of being feckless, work-shy, destined for a life of crime. You are being watched, so confound their expectations of you.

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 and they said they wanted to honor me as one of their game-changers. Was that really game-changing? Or is it just conforming? And see, that's the problem.

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 this idea of not conforming to the standardized time could feel a little far-fetched but it's a step towards recognizing and respecting the vastly