"On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had."
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"Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards."
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"To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government."
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"A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly."
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"You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things."
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"...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle."
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"With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole."
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"To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution."
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"There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles."
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"At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it."
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"It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous."
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"I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary"
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"The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed."
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"I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food."
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"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."
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"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"
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"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
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"I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff."
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"Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."
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"Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade."
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