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• We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

  Robin Sharma

  Moving, New Normal, Comfort

  "Leaving Comfort Zones" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2017.

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• I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

  Daniel Inouye

  War, Type, Sane

  Source: www.achievement.org

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  Don't be normal. Be an example.

  Tim Tebow

  Example

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• Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like they have been other-than-comf ortable most of the time. You can thank the muscle magazines for these persistent misconceptions, along with the natural tendency of all normal humans to seek reasons to avoid hard physical exertion.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, People, Looks

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• I would date a model, but I would rather marry a fan or a normal person.

  Zayn Malik

  Fans, Models, Persons

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

  Tony Blair

  Ocean, Turbulence, Blair

  "Press rounds on Blair government", www.cnn.com. December 19, 2003.

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• We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Jobs, Compassion, Self

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• Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Spring, Perspective

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• My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Past, Guy, Wells

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• I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.

  Jeff Koons

  Jelly, Natural, Breasts

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• The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Exercise, Skills

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