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“We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.”

May Social Attitude Groups Modern Revolution Normal Atheist Arguing Discourse Homosexual

Author:Philip Warren Anderson

“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.”

Art Different Taken Modern Subjects Effects Normal Various Radical Combination Impulse Paradox Hiding Usual Representation Absurdity Items Exclusive Modern Art Different Subjects

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.”

People Ifs May Young Modern Normal Tigers Assured Modern Life Abnormal

Book:How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

Source: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.”

“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.”

Ifs World Trying Firsts Two Problem Three Community Deals Generations Groups Modern Normal Function Organized Fades Diminish World Problems Three Generations Normal Family

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.”

Hard Would Be Sacrifice Modern Habit Normal Liberalism Spokes Abnormal Morbid

Author:Joseph Sobran

“When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.”

Ifs Way Trying Play Character Impossible Modern Normal Percent Gravity Jeans Costumes Diminish Larger Than Life Center Of Gravity

Author:Ray Stevenson

“Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.”

Stills Ideas Matter Lines Modern Color Normal No Matter What Inhuman Between The Lines

Book:The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.”

Way Modern Needed Quiet Normal Down And Slow Down Modern Life

Author:Dani Shapiro