"Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve."
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"If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset."
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"People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings."
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"The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary."
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"Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well."
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"Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being."
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"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment."
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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated."
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"I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them."
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"Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant."
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"When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose."
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"I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances."
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"Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are."
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"Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers."
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"The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families."
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"You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint."
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"the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart"
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"Ordinary life does not interest me."
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"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous."
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