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“Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.”

Individual Process Behinds Achieve Genius Normal Creating Madness Leaving Deeper Devotion Sparks Smarter Gifted Obsessive Insatiable Parameters

Author:Paul Russo

“In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.”

Individual Nations Quality Acceptance Personality Normal Resistance Followers Heroic Modesty Heroism Cult Anonymity Limelight Cult Of Personality

Author:Shana Alexander

“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.”

Feels Philosophy Individual Responsibility Poverty Conditions Blessing Normal Enjoyment Abundance Sympathy Social Responsibility Individual Responsibility

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

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

“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

“Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.”

Self Individual Normal Inherent Defence Disobedience Civil Disobedience Normal Life Self Defence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.”

Thinking Trying Kind Helping Seems Remember Certain Courses Individual Grief Risk Normal Research Difficulty Abnormal Reckoning

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems suitable for mating'. And then there's the weird, culturally constructed definition of 'hot' which means, 'that individual is malnourished and has probably had plastic bags inserted into her breasts'. Like, I think if you went back to the 18th century and asked a 15-year-old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?' that 15-year-old boy would probably be like ... 'What's plastic?'”

Ifs Thinking Years Humans Mean Two Seems Individual Boys Century Normal Hot Definitions Breasts Bags Plastic Suitable 18th Century Mating Plastic Bags

Author:John Green

“The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.”

Humans Persons States Government Individual Normal Ordinary Abuse Affair Tyranny Arbitrary Compulsion Coercion Ordinary Person

Author:Walter E. Williams

“In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.”

Ifs Trying States Facts Individual Powerful Democracy Needed Protect Normal Protection Fragile Elites Turkeys

Author:Elif Safak

“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.”

“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”

Different Individual Normal Ordinary Dare Mediocre Exceptional Dare To Be Different Mediocre Life

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.”

Individual Disease Normal Stress Grounded Strain Disturbance

Book:Negations; essays in critical theory

Source: Negations; essays in critical theory

“Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.”

Law Political Individual Language Social Special Normal Institutions Unity Sentences Ignorant Supposed To Be Submission Prerequisites

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus