"The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side."
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"Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse."
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"There is no such thing as an ordinary life."
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"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."
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"He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly."
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"There is nothing "ordinary" about reality."
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"Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary."
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"What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways."
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"Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me."
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"May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby."
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"I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life."
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"I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming."
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"love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel."
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"As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer."
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"And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them."
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"He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents."
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"The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles."
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"I hate ordinary people!"
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"Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color."
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