Rich Lowry
Political Commentator
"Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes."
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Abnormal
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Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it."
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"Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves."
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"The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos."
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"I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood."
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"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."
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"Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm."
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"We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal."
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"What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art."
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"There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm."
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"An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur."
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"Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it."
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"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
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"When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. That those who advocate any extension of freedom choose to go no further than suits their own special purpose is no reason why freedom itself should be distrusted."
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"Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones."
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"Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal."
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"In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal."
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"Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside."
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"In love, happiness is an abnormal state."
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"Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal."
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"Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack."
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