"We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people."
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"That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment."
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"The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things."
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"..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary."
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"I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife."
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"We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends."
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"There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given"
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"Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy."
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"Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors."
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"I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations."
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"Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation."
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"Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing."
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"Consciously cultivate the ordinary."
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"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
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"One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant."
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"Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away."
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"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
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"Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . ."
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"The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows."
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"I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite."
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