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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. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.”

Men Matter Hell Standards Independent Strive Average Conform Abnormal Resemblance Average Man Normal And Abnormal Lexicographer

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”

Identity Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”

Has Beens Might Fear Cold Hot Distrust Abnormal Aversion Normal And Abnormal

Book:Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

Source: Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

“I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.”

Has Beens Reality Social Fire Normal Boundaries Defined Abnormal Questionable Categorization Deviants Normal And Abnormal

Author:Walter Truett Anderson

“It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.”

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Author:Gilberto Hernandez

“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.”

“There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”

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Author:William James

“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”

Purpose Half Thoughtful Second Chance Unhealthy Abnormal Shrinking Normal And Abnormal Unhealthy Obsession

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.”

World Needs Persons Matter Love Is Views This World Vary Abnormal Looking For Love Need Love Normal And Abnormal

Author:Olga Kurylenko

“You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.”

Ifs Want Love Positive Eternal Negative Craving Shortage Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)

“Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.”

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Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.”

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Book:My Path to Atheism

Source: My Path to Atheism

“I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.”

Knows Trying Happens Know How Normal And Love Glasses Lenses Normal Life Abnormal Telescopes Magnifying Magnifying Glass Normal And Abnormal

Author:Taylor Swift

“Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.”

Would Be Remember Normal Gun Machines Landscape Camps Towers Wire Abnormal Normality Machine Guns Barbed Wire Normal And Abnormal

Author:George Takei

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

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Book:Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”

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Author:Tim Burton

“I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.”

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Author:Isabelle Huppert

“I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.”

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Author:Dirk Benedict

“Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.”

Problem Individual Masters Protect Normal Welfare Poison Collectives Inner Life Abnormal Harness Paralysis Normal And Abnormal

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers”

Ifs Five Blood Hungry All Time Meals Sugar Decrease Abnormal Crackers Normal And Abnormal

Author:Carol Alt

“All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.”

Ifs Giving Persons Facts Names Mad Cynical Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Book:Struggle Till Dawn

Source: Struggle Till Dawn

“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.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

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

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

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

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Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

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

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

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

“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.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“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.”

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Author:Bethany Hamilton

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

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Author:Louise Brown

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

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Author:Sue Johanson