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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.”

Life Earth Lines Alive Perspective Lucky Normal Spring Percent Died Winner Dawn Misfortunes Cosmic Ancestor Organisms Living Things Offspring Unbroken

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.”

Heart Energy Felt Impossible My Heart Normal Percent Tasks Intense Muscles Balanced Acid Sizzling Lactic Acid

Book:The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

Source: The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

“All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.”

“I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.”

Thinking Needs Two Country Spirit Left Growth Dangerous Normal Expectations Percent Our Country Lifts Lofty Great Country New Normal

Author:Jeb Bush

“Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.”

Made War Country Might Found Honor Normal Percent Election Instinct Following Ghost Memoir Staying Vietnam Accord Vietnam War Mischief Candid Geneva

Author:Gore Vidal

“When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.”

Ifs Way Trying Play Character Impossible Modern Normal Percent Gravity Jeans Costumes Diminish Larger Than Life Center Of Gravity

Author:Ray Stevenson

“What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"”

Mean Ends Jobs Normal Percent Rate Employment Recessions

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.”

Years States Enough United United States Normal Percent Sitting Breaths Burning Flames Converting Kentucky Uranium Plutonium

Author:Bill Gates

“All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.”

People Needs Numbers Products Normal Percent Twenties Credit Selling Cards Providing Website Credit Card

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.”

Men Littles Use Amount Ten Normal Percent Daughter Occupation More Money

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land