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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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• 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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• The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Community, Culture

  Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

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• We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set of reasonable rules, than to pretend that Ricardian trade is the norm and allow mercantilist states to overwhelm U.S. industry and ratchet down wages, in the name of free trade.

  Robert Kuttner

  Reality, Names, Would Be

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.124, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• As long as we continue to be imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than impossible to experience that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Real, Long, Mind

  Samael Aun Weor (2010). “The Great Rebellion: The State of Our World and How to Change It Through Practical Spirituality”, p.72, Glorian Publishing

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• There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.

  Adrian Wilson

  Children, Mean, Years

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• There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Teacher, Profound, Parent

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.

  Jamake Highwater

  Adventure, Glasses, Self

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• To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the norm and who will love their jobs; make sure that their ideas and opinions are heard and respected; then give them the freedom to help and solve problems for your customers. Rather than providing rules or scripts, you should ask them to treat the customer as they themselves would like to be treated - which is surely the highest standard.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Believe, Ideas

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• Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.

  Bill Bonner

  Pain, Government, Organization

  "Careful Steps to Avoid a 'Dystopian Future'" by Bill Bonner, dailyreckoning.com. January 12, 2012.

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• The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.

  Alfred Goodwin

  Teacher, School, Understanding

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• John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Player

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• It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Numbers, People, Needs

  "Kong Carl". Book by Jan Ove Ekeberg, Jan Arild Snoen, 2001.

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• Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

  Jean Liedloff

  Happiness, Pain, Disappointment

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.

  Judith Butler

  Two, Feminine, Gender

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Exercise, Rights, Law

  "Between Facts and Norms". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1992.

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• All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Sides, Alternatives, Regulation

  "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1962.

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• Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.

  Vladimir Putin

  World Religions, Other Worlds, People

  Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, en.kremlin.ru. September 19, 2013.

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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, Aberration, Violence

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

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• I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power to accomplish remarkable feats and live an exceptional life is not defined by an individual's family, education, or occupation; it's a disposition of the heart. Unless it's suppressed, there is an innate desire to rise above the norm. I encourage you to step into the unknown, embrace the divine empowerment, and live your extraordinary life.

  John Bevere

  Heart, Men, Age

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• I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

  Joan Rivers

  Sorry, Cutting, Acceptance

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• It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Vocabulary, Unity, Special

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• Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

  Richard Sennett

  Men, Saws, Dignity

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