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• Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.

  Danny Silk

  Jesus, Heart, Years

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• Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Arrogance, Dry

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Self, Broken

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Justice, Evil

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.

  Ted Danson

  Beer, Years, Eight

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

  Derek Sivers

  Art, Expression, World

  "Brave Interview Series: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.forbes.com. July 1, 2015.

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• in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Taken, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Swings, White, Hatred

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Ideas, Doctrine

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

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• Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Adjectives, Nouns

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• We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

  Peter Drucker

  Moving, Order, Today

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

  David Bezmozgis

  Thinking, Force, Ideology

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

  Pope Pius XII

  Doe, Moral, Action

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• calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

  Anita Hill

  Equal Treatment, Special, Discrimination

  Anita Hill (2011). “Speaking Truth to Power”, p.340, Anchor

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• Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Taken, Trying, Males

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Ambitious, Projects, Optimist

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  School, Class, Agency

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• You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you people. My first Broadway show was Master Class, and I saw Audra McDonald. The one that sealed the deal was Ragtime, with Marin Mazzie. My first big role was with John Lithgow, and he taught me the ropes. Norm Lewis sang the night I met my husband. It makes me feel like I have a family.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Husband, Night, Mcdonalds

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• The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Class, White, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Hocus Pocus”, p.27, Random House

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• Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

  danah boyd

  Thinking, Cities, Design

  "Online Social networks go to work". Interview With Xeni Jardin, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

  Dan Ariely

  Country, Jobs, Kids

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

  John Steinbeck

  Monsters, Normal, Seems

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.

  Russell Kirk

  Art, Book, Taken

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• Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

  Dan Ariely

  Long, Break, Social

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Desire, Culture, Each Day

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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