"All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not."
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"There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it."
"It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular."
"In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach."
"Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese."
"Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner."
"The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'."
"To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself."
"For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal."
"On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad."
"If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel."
"Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history."
"God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless."
"There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior."
"The normal food of man is vegetable."
"Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!"
"Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier."
"Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness."
"Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life."
"There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal."