<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Tones Of Nonconformity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Systematically, <br>And with a pinch of strategy...<br>An addiction to mediocrity condoned, <br>Has replaced the drive to achieve...<br>A higher state of mental activity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fact, <br>Being illiterate and lacking in intelligence...<br>Is as welcomed as acquiring skills to deceive.<br>If one happens to live, <br>In certain communities...<br>Where the acceptance of nonsense, <br>Brings one a life of ease and thoughtlessness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cynical? <br>Those expressions have long been dismissed, <br>As pessimistic! <br>And somehow pessimism today seems to be the goal, <br>By the ones who chose to ostracized the ones...<br>Who spoke in tones of nonconformity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And nonconformity? <br>Everyone seems to be caught in the act of it.<br>They call them activists now.<br>Prior to this...<br>Those with the same ideals to awaken others, <br>Were labelled militants or agitating nationalists.<br>And everything else derogatory to ignore.<br>And these were the people making attempts to save humanity!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437738" data-title="In Tones Of Nonconformity de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Systematically, And with a pinch of strategy... An addiction to mediocrity condoned, Has replaced the drive to achieve... A higher state of mental activity. In fact, Being illiterate and lacking in intelligence... Is as welcomed as acquiring s..."></div> </div> </div>

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