#ordinary

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

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Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids. ↗

— Mink Stole

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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. ↗

— John Guare

#bodies #come #controlled #emotional #extraordinary

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#find #important #inside #me #ordinary

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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I don't work at being ordinary. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #ordinary #work

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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No one is ever ordinary. ↗

— Tanith Lee

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