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• What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

  Abraham Maslow

  Average, Psychology, Spread

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.

  Martin Heidegger

  Running, Fashion, Philosophy

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• I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

  E. Lockhart

  Mother, Heart, Hair

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press

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• I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

  David Blaine

  Thinking, Mind, Achieve

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• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  Gareth Bale

  Games, Play, People

  "Gareth Bale's best friend ditches job and girlfriend to join footballer at Real Madrid" by Nick Dorman, www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2013.

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• I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

  Willie McCovey

  Pain, Athlete, Play

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• Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

  Harold MacMillan

  Mean, Government, Genius

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• We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Strange, Psychological

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

  Michael Ian Black

  Humans, Hard, Human Beings

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of himself". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

  Damon Albarn

  Life, People, Addiction

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• There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.

  Matt Drudge

  Children, Hypocrite, Media

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• Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Order, White, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all the familiar defenses of ego and vanity, and accept reality by staring, with the fear that is normal to a man in combat, into the face of Death.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Reality, Men, Vanity

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

  Billy Wilder

  School, Law, Class

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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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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, Death, God

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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