Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist."
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Norm
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?"
Muhammad Asad
Philosopher, Writer
"...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged."
Lawrence Taylor
Football Player
"I like companies that try and break away from the norm."
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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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"Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?"
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"There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious."
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"Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also."
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"Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so."
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"Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm."
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"Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God."
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"What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm."
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"Using the word weird implies that there is a norm."
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"Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing."
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"We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not."
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"It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted."
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