Norm Quote by Poul Anderson Download Open image “Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?” — Poul Anderson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Norm People Stupidity Thinking Universe
Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe? — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share
there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well”… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Those who think they are poor must have forgotten about the great hidden treasure of the heart, as vast as the universe itself, which… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them. — Matthew Ashimolowo Copy Share Image
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.” — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it. — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“Happier are all men than the beings of faerie – or the gods, for that matter,’ he said. ‘Better a life like a falling… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“And if you were not trained, the lesser members of the galaxy that had become visible were so many as to drown the familiar… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it. — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“Survivor—under what conditions?” “Any conditions. Adaptability, toughness, quickness—those are the things that count most.” “I think kindness means a lot,” said Sheila timidly. “It’s… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause. — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“You simply do not understand the human condition,” said the robot. Hah! Do you think you do, you conceited hunk of animated tin?” Yes,… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people… — Tobi Vail Copy Share Image
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