Normal.... What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like. So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now? Would our normal, become our new wierd?
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STEVEN MOFFAT People are now beginning to voice what we've all been seeing with our own eyes -- the majority of pe... LESTER HOLT I wonder if it's suffering." "What, our generation?" "The baby! KENZABURō ŌE When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in t... D.H. LAWRENCE We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed th... PHILIP PULLMAN She was stubborn. She was evolving. She needed SOLITUDE like normal people needed exerci... JAKE VANDER-ARK What if?.. What if I am all to see? What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss? MELODY CARLSON I still don’t know where the river begins, or where it ends. I don’t know where it comes from, o... MICHAEL CHROBAK Our people are on conference calls right now, working through a lot of the issues like where should ... LONNY HASKINS Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do! Your life mainly consists of 3 thi... 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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. BERNARD, ST. Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. BERNARD, ST. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ... BERNARD, ST. The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels. BERNARD, ST. Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a... BERNARD, ST. I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process, ST. AMBROSE Where Peter is, there must be the Church ST. AMBROSE There is no time of life past learning something. ST. AMBROSE Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. BERNARD ST. I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow. ST. VINCENT St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no... ST. LUCIA Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes... ST. ISADORE Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ST. JEROME Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? ST. AUGUSTINE I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ST. AUGUSTINE People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course... ST. AUGUSTINE At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi... ST. AUGUSTINE Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor... ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f... ST. AUGUSTINE Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h... ST. AUGUSTINE