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Normal
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“Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.”
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“Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.”
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“Normal is just a setting on your clothes dryer and has nothing to do with people.”
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“That's got to be at least one of the benefits of heaven — never having to act normal again.”
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“I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status — and not the disability itself — constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.”
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“With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people. ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things.”
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“... a normal human being ... does not exist.”
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“The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.”
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“There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.”
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“... in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.”
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“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”