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Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

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The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. ↗

— John Moody

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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God. ↗

— Gabriele Nanni

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You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out. ↗

— Tony Parsons

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe. ↗

— George Pataki

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I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely. ↗

— Katy Perry

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I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#become #billie #billie holiday #extraordinary #holiday