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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

Positive, Inspiring, Science

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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Anthony Storr

Originality, Enough, Accepted

Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham

Football, Business, People

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Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.

Bill Gates

Broken, Today, Tomorrow

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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

Sam Kinison

Attitude, Voice, Generations

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

T. D. Jakes

Thinking, Ideas, People

T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Bernstein

Stupid, Culture, Firsts

"An A-Z of Cultural Terms". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Mark Zuckerberg

Communication, People, Information

"Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook founder" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2010.

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As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Myriam Miedzian

Taken, Judging, Long

Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.64, Lantern Books

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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Andrea Dworkin

Pride, Men, Identity

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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Norm Crosby

Funny, Hilarious, Smart

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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Billy Joel

Safety, Wire, Musician

FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jul 25, 2012

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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Henry Miller

Law, Miracle, Doctrine

"Black Spring". Book by Henry Miller, 1936.

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Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

Stewart D. Friedman

Office, Employers, Employee

Source: bobmorris.biz

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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Oscar Robertson

Basketball, Teaching, Thinking

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If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

Pope John Paul II

Peace, War, Ubuntu

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...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash.

Pope Francis

Cities, People, Justice

"Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Peter Drucker

Change, Long, Would Be

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

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How can you respect a religion that forces women into polygamous marriages, mutilates their genitals, forbids them to drive cars and subjects them to the humiliation of 'instant' divorce? In fact, none of these practices are Islamic at all. Anyone wishing to understand Islam must first separate the religion from the cultural norms and style of a society.

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

Islamic, Divorce, Practice

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In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

Timothy Leary

Communication, Creativity, Successful

Timothy Leary (2010). “The Politics of Self-Determination”, p.74, Ronin Publishing

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Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

Orson Scott Card

Strong, Valentine, Passion

Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

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Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

Evgeny Morozov

Technology, Pay, Belief

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I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

Jesse Eisenberg

Class, Firsts, Grades

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Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

Martin Filler

Design, Quality, Typical

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We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted as material plenty has become the norm for the majority in much of the world; and partly because the slow retreat of religion that coincided with the spread of a capitalist economy has left a gaping hole in millions of people's lives. (Geoff Mulgan)

Dalai Lama

Spiritual, Past, Capitalist Economy

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