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“Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.”

Matter Standards Independent Conformity Conform Abnormal Non Conformity Normal And Abnormal Abnormal Psychology

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.”

Natural Taken Hunger Appetite Artificial Bondage Abnormal

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body

“I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.”

Wells Normal Appetite Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.”

My Own Understood Despise Crave Abnormal Reassurance

Author:Anais Nin

“True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".”

Ifs Evil Quality Empathy Surprise Judged Abnormal Being Judged

Author:Carl Rogers

“If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.”

Ifs Food Hungry Ice Cream Abnormal Crackers Normal And Abnormal

Author:Carol Alt

“We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”

Mind Heart Matter Would Be Order Deals Attitude Rich Diversity Intellectual Shadow Tests Mere Substance Individualism Exceptional Occasional Abnormal Eccentricity Cultural Diversity

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.”

Knows Should Christian Life Is Attitude Normal Believer Scripture Christian Life Holiness Abnormal Prestigious

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.”

World States Difficult Type Destruction Appropriate Daily Life Abnormal World Destruction

Author:Yukio Mishima

“If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.”

People Ifs Mind States Would Be Joy Healing Conditions Health Fine Healthy Normal Laughter Doctors Medicine Medical Pleasant State Of Mind Abnormal Power Of Laughter Laughter And Joy

Author:Catherine Ponder

“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”

Form Natural Hurt Compassion Taken Conditions Normal Criticism Accepted Radical Abnormal Humanness Humanness Is

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.”

Common Normal Abnormal

Book:Little Brother

Source: Little Brother

“The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.”

Knows Humans Ends Problem Culture Energy Growth Situation Know How Happened Resources Built Prepared Phases Curves Human History Abnormal Steep Almost Over

Author:M. King Hubbert

“Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.”

Persons Choices Circumstances Normal Adults Libertarian Medical Arguing Unconscious Assistance Abnormal Ambulance Normal And Abnormal

Author:Tom G. Palmer

“Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.”

Children Choices Adults Responsible Guardian Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.”

Thinking Men World May Children I Can Play Names Animal He Man Bears Tied Virtuous Roof Degradation Abnormal Monstrosity Virtuous Woman

Author:Mary MacLane

“The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.”

Want Persons Doe Enough Desire Abnormal Desire To Live

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

“You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.”

Return Normal Abnormal

Book:The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First

Source: The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First

“These are friendships that these girls are making that will be a lifetime and they're doing things that are so abnormal and to such a high level, that there's a bond that's like no other.”

Girl Levels Lifetime Abnormal High Level

Author:Kim Zmeskal

“I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”

Has Beens Problem Bits Roles Beats Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Author:Johnny Depp

“Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.”

Class Cases Study Psychology Performances Als Gore Abnormal Case Studies Abnormal Psychology

Author:Rich Lowry

“Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.”

Problem Masters Anticipation Abnormal Harness Normal And Abnormal

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.”

Successful Conditions Normal Organization Cooperation Formal Abnormal

Book:The Functions of the Executive

Source: The Functions of the Executive

“Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.”

“Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.”

May Character Facts Space Possibility Adventure Infinite Independent Classic Abnormal Infinite Possibilities

Author:Maren Jensen

“Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.”

Shows Law Opinion Expression Core Public Opinion Rotten Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Book:Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

“Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.”

Way Feels Senses Abnormal

Author:Paul Fussell

“This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.”

Men Situation Criticism Difficulty Credit Defense Doctrine Attempting Abnormal Suppression Elimination Rigor Undesirable

Author:W. R. Thompson

“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”

Steps Identity Theory Privilege Gender Decades Acknowledge Zero Masculine Abnormal

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)”

“I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.”

People Feels Trying I Can Feelings Difficult Normal Proportion Surround Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Author:Emma Watson

“Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.”

Sometimes Education Learning Normal Strive Educational Strife Exceptional Abnormal Educational System

Author:Neil Young

“I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'”

Men Writing Looks Said Wanted Song Crazy Abnormal

Author:Brian Eno

“In love, happiness is an abnormal state.”

States Abnormal

Author:Marcel Proust

“Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.”

Wells Book Past Known Worry Arms Well Known Healed Abnormal Past Experiences Normal And Abnormal

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.”

Peculiar Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Author:Louise Brown

“Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.”

Certain Causes Activity Disease Performances Function Abnormal Chiropractic

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.”

Ifs Looks Force Objects Englishmen Abnormal

Author:James Agate

“It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.”

Feels Guilty Glorious Ashamed Embarrassed Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Author:Sue Johanson