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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.

    Introduction - Critical Apparatus 2005

  • Here's what The Art of Non-Conformity is all about.

    Chris Guillebeau: The Agenda -- Part I: Ask Why Chris Guillebeau 2010

  • Here's what The Art of Non-Conformity is all about.

    Chris Guillebeau: The Agenda -- Part I: Ask Why Chris Guillebeau 2010

  • Conformity is good and diversity is bad, deviance; this is a standard in its own right -- normalcy.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The issue is the word you used in the NS "Conformity".

    Calder's Comfort Farm: Norman Baker, trainspotting and terrorism 2009

  • 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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