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Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead trouble makers.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Neurotic's Notebook · 1963

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Conformity Rebellion

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1963

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Mignon McLaughlin

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McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's Notebook. ‎The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963, ch. 7.

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Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead trouble makers. — Mignon McLaughlin

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