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"Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around." "Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hubcaps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?"
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loneliness
lies
conform
wandering
antisocial
social
peer-pressure
hurt
society
bullying
school
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Ray Bradbury |
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Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.
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individuality
identity
life
inspirational
life-advice
advice
peer-pressure
bullying
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Phil Lester |
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A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.
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women
peer-pressure
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Natsuo Kirino |
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Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this product as a reflection of that independence. So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity in brand-name selection?
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individuality
independence
conformity
peer-pressure
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Bill Watterson |
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From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.
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youth
teenagers-and-parents
peer-pressure
parenting
children
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Barbara Coloroso |
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"We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position."
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peer-pressure
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Shelby Foote |
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When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.
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peer-pressure
popularity
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Alexandra Robbins |
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It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.
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peer-pressure
nonchalance
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Alexandra Robbins |
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Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
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peer-pressure
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Alexandra Robbins |
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"In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a "crowd contagion."
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peer-pressure
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Alexandra Robbins |
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Groups satisfy our brain's natural inclination to make sense of hordes of people we encounter and observe. This quality is so inherent that children intuitively understand the need to form groups without adults having to teach them.
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labeling
peer-pressure
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Alexandra Robbins |
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"The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers"
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leadership
innovation
peer-pressure
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Adam M. Grant |
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Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.
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peer-pressure
job
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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"its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members "could be dealt with only in bodies and droves."
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leadership
peer-pressure
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Robert A. Caro |
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Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
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distraction
peer-pressure
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd.
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nonconformism
peer-pressure
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Adam M. Grant |