Normal Quotes - Page 18

• Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

  Alfred Jodl

  Cases, Okay, Psychiatric

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 17, 1946.

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• In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Effort, Curiosity, Satisfaction

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.39, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

  John Rawls

  Justice, May, Cooperation

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.109, Harvard University Press

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• Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

  Edward Sapir

  Psychological, Anthropology, Valuable

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1949). “Selected Writings in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.515, Univ of California Press

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• Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Hate, Yield, Might

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 513), 1997.

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• We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological research--and there are obviously many more experiments in addition to mine and Milgram's--shows that the majority of good, ordinary, normal people can be easily seduced, tempted, or initiated into behaving in ways that they say they never would. In 30 minutes we got them stepping across that line.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Believe, People, Research

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• Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Beaten

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• For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Ambition, Emotional, Order

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• Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

  Gao Xingjian

  Book, Writing, Men

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• My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Athlete, Pigs, Trying

  "Football Italia", July 01, 2007.

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• Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.

  Mark Oliver

  Snowfall, Range, Expected

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• Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Jobs, Stars, Acting

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• There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

  Joan Robinson

  Textbooks, Fiction, Economic

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.3, Academic Press

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• Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

  David Richo

  Giving Up, Self Esteem, Acceptance

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• Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Mean, Microsoft, Remember

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.324, Apress

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• It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

  Pierre Bourgault

  Criminals, Racist

  "La Colère . Écrits Polémiques". Book by Pierre Bourgault, Volume 3, p. 297, 1996.

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• I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Crush, Real, People

  "Ashley Tisdale Talks About Her Debut Album and Her Life". Upstar Magazine, 2008.

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• I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

  Jesse Ventura

  Suicide, Thinking, Healthy

  "I Ain't Got Time To Bleed". Book by Jesse Ventura, 1999.

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• My family would soon tell me if I was getting above my station. I love what I do, I love my job, but I also like to go home and lead a normal life. ... I like to go to the gym, go shopping and do normal things, and it's totally unnecessary to not value people working around you. It's down to good manners, really.

  Kerry Ellis

  Jobs, Home, Shopping

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• Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Emotional, Giving, Cynicism

  S.S. Van Dine (2013). “The Philo Vance Megapack: 12 Classic Mysteries - The Complete Series”, p.1022, Wildside Press LLC

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• Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be able to enjoy their food ever for the rest of their life whether it is Christmas or they are on their holidays or their child birthday or any other festival. List of problems and complications after the weight loss surgery operation are endless as one may get additional problems such as Hernia, Internal Bleeding, Swelling of the skin around the wounds, etc. I wonder how many weight loss surgeons advice about weight loss surgery to their own family members.

  Subodh Gupta

  Children, Holiday, Loss

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• My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Smart, Years, Names

  Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
  And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Fellow Man, Flesh

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Judging, Mistreatment

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• Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Memories, Prayer, Children

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