"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
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"No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven."
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"Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary."
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"Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life"
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"To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living."
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"All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account."
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"An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!"
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"In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process."
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"The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones."
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"The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk"
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"I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books."
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"What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?"
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"The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality."
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"I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things."
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"How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)"
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"It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments."
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"If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is."
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"Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals."
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"Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary."
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"I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes."
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