#ordinary man

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ↗

— Graham Greene

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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