Norm MacDonald Quotes

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

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• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

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• There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

  

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• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

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• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

  

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• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

  

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• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

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• Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

  

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• ... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

  

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• The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity.

  

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• Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.

  

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• We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

  

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• I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot survive and prosper except in an ordered society, and revolution becomes sooner or later the new order. Viruses have not failed to follow the general law. They are strict parasites which, born of disorder, have created a very remarkable new order to ensure their own perpetuation.

  

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• The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

  

  Norm MacDonald
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  • Morals
  • Custom