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“Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.”

Particular Circumstances Normal Libertarian Arguing Obligation Consent

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

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

“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.”

Littles Different Night Fall Bits Week Particular Normal Little Bit Musician Performances Patterns Schedules Rehearsal Day And Night Conductor Different Day

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression of such dimensions. There might have been a normal cyclical recession; but, with the usual timing, even that readjustment probably would not have taken place at that particular period, nor would it have been a "Great Depression.”

Has Beens War Might Causes Taken Particular Periods Normal Primaries Dimensions Usual Timing Might Have Been Recessions Great Depression

Book:The great depression, 1929-1941

Source: The great depression, 1929-1941

“It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.”

Particular Normal Destruction Lust Virginity

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.”

Thinking World Way Want Trying Play Use Sides Views Audience Successful Particular Normal Cinema

Author:Terry Gilliam

“Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.”

Knows Writing Moments Fiction Childhood Particular Normal Unusual Life Experience Bizarre Strangeness

Author:Kelly Link

“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

“I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.”

People Ideas Particular Son Normal Mysterious My Son Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Omar Sharif

“I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.”

“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.”

People Mean Ends Philosophy Happens Certain Values Interest Accepting Particular Normal Relation Institutions Usual Noticing

Author:Georges Canguilhem

“I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice.”

People Choices Struggle Particular Fit Normal Expectations Concepts Pressure Boxes Regulation Frustrated Exclusive Life Choices Life Struggle Rules And Regulations

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.”

People Trying Stills Difficult Forget Situation Particular Dad Normal Summer My Dad Normal Life Baghdad Difficult Situations

Author:Andy Serkis

“I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.”

Thinking Trying Persons Feelings Interesting Particular Conversation Normal Hopefully

Author:Joel Stein

“Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.”

Writing Humanity Sides Particular Normal Department Academy

Author:Cynthia Ozick