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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ↗

— Andre Breton

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They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

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It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed. ↗

— Julie Walters

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The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party. ↗

— Shirley Williams

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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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