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“Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.”

Enough Grows Activity Ordinary Extraordinary Inhumanity Hazing

Book:Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

Source: Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

“When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.”

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.”

Mind Social Grows Fields Ordinary Tasks Presses Details Senses Significance Civilized Hunters Cognition Naturalist Woodland Small Details Scanning Pleasantries

Author:E. O. Wilson

“If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.”

Ifs Persons Light Grows Differences Simple Emotional Judgment Capable Ordinary Evidence Prejudice Resistance Contradiction Exposed Bias Threatened Misconception New Knowledge Rectify

Author:Gordon Allport

“Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.”

Men Persons Found Grows Space Answers Common Growing Up Ordinary Size Fishes Giants Articles Bowls Goldfish

Author:John August

“Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!”

“The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.”

Men Years Ends Past Grows Ordinary Slips Ordinary Man

Author:Louis XIV

“Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

“Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.”

World Made Lasts Beautiful Mother Turns Grows Loses Too Much Grace Sadness Figures Youth Ordinary Ears Decades Flawed Gave Up Wrinkles Collars Pears

Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

“War grows out of ordinary human nature.”

Humans War Grows Human Nature Ordinary

Book:Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel

Source: Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel

“As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.”

World Way Life Important Happens Grows Results Expression Ordinary Important Things Silly Chosen Ordinary Things Silly Things

Book:The chosen with related readings

Source: The chosen with related readings

“...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reach your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her.”

People Feelings Might Pain Grows Limits Degrees Ordinary Understood Spread Scales Trapped Spills Sideways

Author:Kristin Cashore

“Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”

“Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.”

People Life Wells Social Grows Known Poverty Conditions Ordinary Terrorism Oppression Insanity Void Dictatorship Well Known Ordinary People Social Conditions

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.”

People Ifs Want Humans Helping Feelings Young Grows Growing Up Imagine Duty Hero Ordinary Helping Others Heroic Secretary Housewife

Author:Miep Gies

“Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.”

Grows Consciousness Ordinary Conscious Independent Senses

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

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