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“Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.”

Wells Children Differences Normal Adults Libertarian Insane Retarded Retard Mentally Retarded

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

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

“The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.”

Social Groups Society Normal Adults Conception Ridicule Departure Juvenile Social Groups

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.”

“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.”

Men Way I Can Different Walks Missing Like You One Day Normal Adults Wake Up Train Legs Different Ways Shopping

Author:John Darnielle

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.”

Thinking Kids Girl Theory Normal Training Adults Gender Bias Gender Bias

Author:Geena Davis

“In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.”

Important Character Term Acting Cutting Normal Understood Adults Essence Constant Screens Tension Agreement

Author:Asa Butterfield

“On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into our craft as adults, and maybe even more because we have school to do and a lot of things to figure out.”

School Actors Effort Figures Normal Adults Treated Crafts

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.”

Stills Girl Grew Normal Grew Up Adults Driving Call Me Pregnant Amy

Author:Amy Schumer

“The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.”

Children Made Eye Beautiful Millions Normal Ordinary Adults Average Staring Indispensable

Author:Peter Shaffer

“I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare "normal" families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction.”

People Ifs Way Children Young Suffering Wonder Boys Normal Adults Profound Addiction Noses Alcoholism Normal Family

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see is that, in adults, they go to bed and they start off by going into the deeper stages sleep.”

Ifs Night Sleep Stage Bed Normal Adults Patterns Deeper Going To Sleep Deprivation Sleep Deprivation

Author:Shelby Harris

“Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.”

Mean Children War Comfort Normal Adults Nuclear Disruption Abolition Nuclear War

Author:Willard Libby

“Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.”

Needs Seems Risk Subjects Normal Standards Adults Performances Jazz Tennis Formal Surgery Athletic Improvisation Jazz Improvisation Athletic Performance

Author:Ernest Sosa

“What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.”

Different Differences Rights Normal Adults Fundamentals Libertarian Fundamental Rights

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

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