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• I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

  Lauren Groff

  Desire, Intense, Better Life

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• I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

  Johnny Galecki

  Sports, Growing Up, Night

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• Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

  Criss Jami

  People, May, Sinfulness

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body.

  Peter Dickens

  Pain, Perfection, Understanding

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• Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

  Charles de Lint

  Character, Normal, Dysfunctional Family

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• What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Negative, Doe, Morality

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.

  Sally Hawkins

  Fun, Character, Play

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• I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Team, Focus, Culture

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Medicine

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• While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black, Levels, Individual

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• In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.

  Justin Sane

  Rights, People, Political

  "Anti-Flag’s General Strike Is a Soundtrack for Occupied America". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Darkness, Humanity

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• I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Class, Society

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Acceptance, Thinking

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Trouble (poetry, contemporary)”, p.59, jessINK

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• If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society. In short, it will either recover the Christian doctrine of nonconformity or cease to have any authentic Christian voice.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Christian, Simple, Voice

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• We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.

  Shimon Peres

  Promise, Environmental, Needs

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• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Taken, Long, New Testament

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.382, A&C Black

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• Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

  Sidney Lumet

  Crazy, Mad, Insane

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• The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Expression

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.93, M.E. Sharpe

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• Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

  Werner Herzog

  Truth, Illumination, Facts

  De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy (2013). “Conversations on Cinema”, p.136, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

  Jack Welch

  Teamwork, People, Coaches

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• There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Artist, Psychics

  Howard Gardner (1982). “Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity”

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• The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.

  Tom DeMarco

  Art, Book, Average

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• Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

  Eric Thomas

  Communication, Vegas, Community

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• I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

  Earle Brown

  Healthy, Needs, Culture

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