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• To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Disappointment, Anxiety, Suffering

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Looks, Strange, Sin

  Twitter post from Sep 6, 2013

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• I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become
  strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

  Henry Rollins

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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  Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

  Jaden Smith

  Teenager, Kids, School

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Courage, Years, Darkness

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• People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.

  Robert Pattinson

  Crazy, People

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• I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

  Olivia

  Life Changing, Simple, Want

  "African moms: Be patient with your unmarried daughters" by China Okasi, www.cnn.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.

  Alexis Carrel

  Cancer, Healing, Dark

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• Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Girl, Feelings, Construction

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• Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

  Eleanor Catton

  Real, Essence, Perfect

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• Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

  Paul Krugman

  Republican, Modern, Mendacity

  "Trillion Dollar Fraudsters". www.nytimes.com. March 20, 2015.

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• Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Cancer, Animal, Environmental

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• Ser un chico normal de 22 años, probablemente no es tan divertido como ser parte de One Direction.

  Ed Sheeran

  One Direction

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• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Important, Paper

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.837, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.

  Jordan Knight

  Back In The Day, Kind, Company

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• The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

  Sebastian Thrun

  Real, Knights, Self

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• I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

  Jack Ma

  Eye, Technology, People

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• Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Victory, Abnormal

  Watchman Nee (1997). “The Overcoming Life: The Basis for the Normal Christian Life”, p.25, Living Stream Ministry

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• Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.

  Henci Goer

  Oxytocin, Progress, Needs

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.84, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Iran, Want

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2015

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• The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

  William James

  Prayer, Exercise, Doctors

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Special, Return

  "Bill Gates Too Rich For US Tax Computers...", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

  Arthur Koestler

  Society, Adults, Groups

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, People, Dignity

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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