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• I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

  Lewis Carroll

  Extraordinary, Seems

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• Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.

  Samantha Hunt

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

  Danielle Steel

  Able, Extraordinary, Knows

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.

  Kelly Stables

  Mistake, Evil, I've Learned

  "The Exes’ Kelly Stables: Giving Her Heart to Faith, Motherhood, and the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

  Marco Rubio

  America, People, Everyday

  "Rubio introduces Romney, vision of GOP future" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

  Quentin Crisp

  War, Book, World

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• I'll tell you a little fun fact about the film, though. Me, the little boy playing Chip, Emma Thompson, and Emma Watson, all have the same birthday. We were all in on the same day and they all sang us "Happy Birthday." That will never happen in my life again: Four of us having the same birthday on the same film, and we're all in on the same day. It was an extraordinary thing.

  Luke Evans

  Fun, Boys, Four

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• There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.

  Tony Blair

  Skills, Support Systems, Government

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

  Theodore Levitt

  Business, Organization, People

  Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt (1998). “Thinking About Management”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

  Barack Obama

  People, Leader, Political

  "Obama Asks Young Israelis To Push For Peace". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

  Bear Grylls

  Self Confidence, Climbing, Special

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• It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving it or receiving it, you become magnanimous to the rest of the world. That’s why people in love can do extraordinary things!.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Giving, Effort

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• I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Age, Want

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• Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It's a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I've ever taken on.

  Brad Pitt

  Children, Book, Love You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

  Twiggy

  People, Ordinary, Sixty

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• No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

  Marcel Proust

  Liquid, Crumbs, Palate

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.48, Vintage

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• I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Travel, Mean

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• Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Laughing

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.166, Hayes Barton Press

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• Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things

  Dee Hock

  Dream, Determination, People

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.214, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moon, Path, Excited

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Medicine, Suffering, Patents

  Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 1

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• God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Ordinary, Use

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Starting Your Best Life Now: A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your Journey”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dream, Art, Ideas

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• We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

  Dave Eggers

  Fall, Ambition, Luxury

  "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story". Book by Dave Eggers, 2000.

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