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Commission Court, under James the Second were the first champions of our liberties; the Establishment which, under Laud, persecuted to obtain Conformity, is now certainly our surest, perhaps our only guarantee of Toleration.
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Here's what The Art of Non-Conformity is all about.
Chris Guillebeau: The Agenda -- Part I: Ask Why Chris Guillebeau 2010
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Here's what The Art of Non-Conformity is all about.
Chris Guillebeau: The Agenda -- Part I: Ask Why Chris Guillebeau 2010
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Conformity is good and diversity is bad, deviance; this is a standard in its own right -- normalcy.
Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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Conformity is good and diversity is bad, deviance; this is a standard in its own right -- normalcy.
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom Hal Duncan 2007
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Next to Chris Guillebeau’s photo in the “about” section of his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity, is the unabashedly bold statement –
Interview with Chris Guillebeau – Blogging Superstars Part 2 | Write to Done 2010
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Some, accordingly, of their number practiced what was called Occasional Conformity, that is, received the Anglican sacrament just once so as to qualify.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Propriety of the Thoughts, that is, the Conformity of our Conceptions to the Objects we conceive; for this is the Definition of Truth, when taken in a Physical Sense; nor in the Purity of Words and Expression, for this may be eminent in the Cold, Didactick Stile, and in the correct Writers of History and Philosophy: But Wit is that which imparts Spirit to our Conceptions and Diction, by giving them a lively and novel, and therefore an agreeable Form: And thus its Nature is limited and diversify'd from all other intellectual Endowments.
Essay upon Wit Sir Richard Blackmore 1695
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The issue is the word you used in the NS "Conformity".
Calder's Comfort Farm: Norman Baker, trainspotting and terrorism 2009
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Ever since urban fixed-gear cycling entered the "Conformity" phase, every city in America and beyond has taken turns "stepping up" with a video that shows that they too know how to be like everybody else.
Archive 2010-08-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010
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