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“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Persons Humanity Conditions Figures Normal Species Definitions Income Excellent Muscles Looking Good Single Person Human Species Disposable Adverts

Author:Francis Spufford

“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”

Ifs Conditions Loneliness Normal

Author:Rachel Hartman

“We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.”

“There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.”

Way Humans Conditions Normal Enlightenment Human Condition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.”

Goal Alive Conditions Normal Cease

Book:The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.”

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Author:Susan B. Anthony

“The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.”

Humans May Justice Conditions Circumstances Normal Cooperation

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“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.”

Might Hate Achieve Conditions Normal Filled Slave Yield Maximum Output Diseased Resentful

Author:Fritz Sauckel

“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.”

“Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.”

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Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.”

Men Mean Long Has Beens Impossible Blood Conditions Drink Normal Men And Women Noble Bourbon

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Knows Writing Wells Said Ends Play Waiting Conditions Normal Summer Studios Producers Exceptional End Of Summer

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.”

Want Results Audience Conditions Normal Do The Best Discouragement

Book:Writing is Work

Source: Writing is Work

“People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.”

People Alive Conditions Normal Extremes Naked

Author:John Shirley

“If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.”

Ifs Science Rooms Conditions Normal Extremes Organisms Temperature Biologist

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.”

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Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

“There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.”

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Author:Albert Belle

“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.”

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Author:James Marcus

“We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.”

Conditions Normal Treats Operators

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective in mind or body or will can be useful labor feed, house, and clothe himself and his family. The "right to work" and the "right to a living wage" are just as valid as the rights of person or property.”

Men Mind Persons States Body Care House Rights Economic Conditions Normal Labor Property Take Care Defective Living Wage

Author:Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

“Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.”

Kind Able Conditions Media Normal Negative Communicate Happy Life Autism Socializing

Author:Daniel Tammet

“One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.”

People Wells Enough Pain Suffering Conditions Normal Anxiety Six Worried Disorder Fierce Severe Normal Life Mental Pain Anxiety Disorder

Author:Polly Toynbee

“I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”

Believe Evil Conditions Mankind Normal

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.”

Should Humans Important Conditions Regret Normal Should Have Died World War Ii Human Condition

Book:The Forgotten Soldier

Source: The Forgotten Soldier

“From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.”

Ifs Seems Effort Conditions Normal Philosopher Unreasonable Accusation

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.”

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Book:The letters of Martha Gellhorn

Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn

“Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.”

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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which only death appears as a pinprick of light: in other words, the exact opposite of the normal condition of life.”

Light Darkness Imagine Conditions Despair Normal Opposites Suicide

Author:Julian Barnes

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”

Source: The Politics of Experience

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