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"I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
"To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost."
"To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events."
"When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up."
"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."
"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."
"I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow."
"The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching."
"The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution."
"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
"By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves."
"Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
"Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness."
"The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman."
"In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency."
"The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see."
"The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks."
"Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need."
"One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person."
"We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity."
