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• The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

  Dennis Prager

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• You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

  Dan Simmons

  Essence, Violence, Treats

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Carrion Comfort”, p.266, Macmillan

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• This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my life. The rest of my conduct, I think you will agree, is not reflective of my driving record, and I apologized for it.

  Zulima Farber

  Thinking, Records, Driving

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• I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

  Andrea Thompson

  Two, People, Looks

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• Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Soul, Kind

  The History of Sexuality vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 2 (1976) (translation by Robert Hurley)

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• The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Civilized Nations, Problem, Individualism

  1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.

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• Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

  Paul Hawken

  Development, Humans, Capitalism

  Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins (1999). “Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution”, p.5, Earthscan

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• Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for ideals whose realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hate, Thinking, Realization

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• I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Unions, Conviction

  Source: reason.com

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• The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well in early Reformed thought. Moreover - and importantly for our purposes - this view was not regarded as an aberration but as a legitimate position that could be taken within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought. But that means that the Five Points aren't the non-negotiable conceptual core of Calvinism after all.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Taken, Mean, Views

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.

  Harper Lee

  Children, War, Parent

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• Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

  Shadia Drury

  Jesus, Religion, Atheism

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• Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

  Gregory Maguire

  Cat, Looks, Approval

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• Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.

  William Morris

  Flower, Thinking, Should Have

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Expression, Historical, Pressure

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• Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

  Germaine Greer

  Children, Exercise, Fertility

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

  Mary Roach

  Travel, Signatures

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night,
  How is it I find you in difference, see you there
  In a moving contour, a change not quite completed?
  You are familiar yet an aberration.

  Wallace Stevens

  Girl, Summer, Moving

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.301, Vintage

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• It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

  Henry James

  Fool, Born

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.3508, Delphi Classics

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• By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Normal, Action

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

  Lester R. Brown

  Junk, Half, Lasts

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.229, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.

  Peter Medawar

  Children, Discovery, Vision

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

  Larry Coker

  Real, Team, Thinking

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• The only aberration is denial of self.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Self, Denial

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• Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Jobs, Responsibility

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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