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'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.’ – Sundown

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.

Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities.

To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

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

Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

We can't allow ourselves to become inured to terrorist attacks to see it as the new normal.

We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been to say something like, "You had better come out this moment or I am releasing the tiger!" But Debbie was not a normal parent, so we heard her gigle and creep away, saying, "Shhh! Rachel! Come with Mommy! Stuart is busy!

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.