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“Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.”

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Author:Richard K. Morgan

“Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.”

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Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.”

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Author:John Lahr

“Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.”

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Author:James Hollis

“'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades.”

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Author:Dean Spade

“I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.”

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Author:John Fairclough

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

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Author:William James

“The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley.”

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Author:Alissa Nutting

“There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.”

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Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”

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Book:King Dork

Source: King Dork

“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