#ordinary

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s. ↗

— Charlton Heston

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Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#blog #capital #citizen #gore #government

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. ↗

— Ted Hughes

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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

#any #defined #described #down #far

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. ↗

— Walter Kohn

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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#because #deficient #domination #dose #inefficient

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. ↗

— Fidel Castro

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