#ordinary people

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

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Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. ↗

— Daryn Kagan

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Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. ↗

— Alberto Sordi

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There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. ↗

— Viola Davis

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