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"There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained."
"All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations."
"Some banks won’t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe for ordinary people, but we’re going to have to bring out some of these bad assets."
"And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary."
"The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people."
"Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable."
"Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting."
"If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child."
"Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary."
"I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible."
"When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers."
"You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that."
"There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort."
"I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary."
"The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving."
"The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent."
"Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do."
"He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale."
"Ordinary morality is innate in my view."
"War grows out of ordinary human nature."
