"What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm."

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Youngme Moon

#Different Quotes #Norm Quotes #Depends Quotes

“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
“Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.”

Source : Carolyn Crane (2010). “Mind Games”, p.137, Spectra
“I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family's not around, when I'm on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I'm pretty boring.”
“The theory behind AltConf is simple: it's worth being in town for WWDC, even if you don't have tickets, and if you're already there, you might as well go to the conference next door. The reality of what AltConf has become is an important addition to the very controlled stream of information Apple provides. Some of the industry's best speakers don't work at Apple, and some of the industry's most important topics aren't being discussed by Hair Force One.”
“I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.”
“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”

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