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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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• The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Character, Compassion

  "Who was Lucifer and how did he become the Devil?". 2007.

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• Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

  Pia Zadora

  Mom, Kids, Years

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• Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Anxiety, Citizens, Use

  "Ten Principles for a Black Swan-proof World". www.ft.com. April 07, 2009.

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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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• In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context, is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.

  Antoni Tapies

  Art, Taken, Usual

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 28), 2004.

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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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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Genius

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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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• People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

  Ferran Adria

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Childhood, Fiction

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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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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• The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe that we're all murderers and rapists, and we have to explain that we're not!" Uh so, a slogan for the gay civil rights movement should be "Normal, Non-threatening and Not After Your Children"?

  Laura Antoniou

  Children, Believe, Gay

  "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.

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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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• Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.

  Russell Barkley

  Self, Brain, Levels

  Russell A. Barkley (2000). “Taking Charge of ADHD, Revised Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents”, p.48, Guilford Press

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