“ I wanted to work out how a norm actually materialises a body, how we might understand the materiality of the body to be not only invested with a norm, but in some sense animated by a norm, or contoured by a norm. ”
- Judith Butler- Copy
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“ Not a whit, Touchstone. Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ”
- John Madden- Copy
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“ I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem — and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. ”
- George Meredith- Copy
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“ The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
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“ The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ If they can constitute a free and just society with this constitution that they're working on right now, I think that that will be something, a real measurement, a real benchmark. ”
- George Allen- Copy
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“ Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion. ”
- Anne Parillaud- Copy
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“ Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines — these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm. ”
- Cicely Tyson- Copy
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“ As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment. ”
- Myriam Miedzian- Copy
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“ because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard. ”
- Guy Picciotto- Copy
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“ Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
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“ We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal. ”
- Carl Bernstein- Copy
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