Norm Quotes - Page 16

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

Marcel Proust

Abnormal, Homosexuality, Normal And Abnormal

1921A' la recherche du temps perdu,'Sodome et Gomorrhe'.

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You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

Vashti Bunyan

Thinking, Levels, May

Source: pitchfork.com

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Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

Joan D. Chittister

Divine Order, Community, Decision

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I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

Guy Picciotto

Thinking, People, Distraction

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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

Carl Honore

Art, Eating Well, Surfing

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Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.

Roger E. Olson

Doctrine, Scripture, Vote

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If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.

Philippa Perry

Circles, Retreat, Comfort

Source: bigthink.com

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There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

Elizabeth Kolbert

Ideas, Guy, Generations

"Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.

Dean Spade

People, Reform, Population

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But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

Fred Brooks

Knowing, Requirements, Arguing

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It's good to do things that are out of the norm.

LaToya Jackson

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I know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people. I look at age as just being a number. In my mind my age is still 28 and I think I have to remember how old I am.

Adrian Peterson

Thinking, Numbers, People

Source: bleacherreport.com

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[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.

Donald Trump

Historical, Immigration, Population

Source: time.com

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It's maybe every third person now (who calls out 'Norm!' when they see me). It used to be every other person. It's faded a bit, but not too much. They're always going to remember me that way. I decided a long time ago that if I'm going to let this make me crazy, I'm going to be certifiable, so I just roll with it.

George Wendt

Crazy, Long, Too Much

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Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

Joseph Sobran

Ideas, Hot, Enthusiasm

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[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

Jesse Ventura

Political, Buying, Politician

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Masturbation is not physically necessary. There is already a way by which the male system relieves excessive spermatic fluid quite regularly through the nocturnal emission or wet dream. Monthly menstrual flow expels the female's egg and cleanses the womb. For both sexes, physical or emotional tensions can be released by vigorous activity. Thus, in a biological sense, masturbation for either gender is not necessary. In a gospel sense, it is a sin: Masturbation, a rather common indiscretion, is not approved of the Lord...regardless of what may have been said by others whose 'norms' are lower.

Spencer W. Kimball

Dream, Sex, Emotional

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Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Peter Drucker

Organization, Tasks

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I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Children, Real, Believe

"Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

Jimmy Doolittle

Clever, Philosophy, Play

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If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.

Tobi Vail

Girl, Thinking, Rocks

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Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.

Greg Giraldo

Gambling, Parking Meters, People

"Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget". TV Special, www.imdb.com. August 17, 2008.

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You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.

Demetri Martin

Breathing, Majority, Attention

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When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

Dave Grohl

Technology, Years, Two

"Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". Interview with Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Carl von Clausewitz

Knowing, Different, Judgment

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