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“Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.”

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Author:Madisen Beaty

“The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.”

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Author:Lauren Greenfield

“I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.”

Source: American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie

“Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.”

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Author:Charles D. Hayes

“Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.”

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Author:Chris Van Allsburg

“I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.”

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Author:Hilary Duff

“I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.”

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Author:Lisa Leslie

“It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.”

“The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“God has not called us to save America; He has called us to save Americans from the coming judgment of God by introducing them to faith in Jesus Christ.”

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Author:Robert Jeffress

“In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.”

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Author:David Halberstam

“Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.”

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Book:The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Source: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

“Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.”

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Author:Andrew Lansley

“Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.”

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Book:Understanding Today's Youth Culture

Source: Understanding Today's Youth Culture

“The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.”

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Book:Understanding Today's Youth Culture

Source: Understanding Today's Youth Culture

“It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.”

“At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.”

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Author:Wyclef Jean

“It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.”

“If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.”

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Author:Kevin Gates

“Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.”

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Author:Kool Moe Dee

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