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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Hero, Greatness, Men

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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• The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

  Michael Feinstein

  Air, Legacy, Today

  "The memory of Gershwin prompts host of albums". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1998.

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• Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

  Mark Haddon

  Perspective, Ordinary

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• I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

  John Lone

  Queens, Drag, Performers

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• One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

  Siobhan Davies

  Self, Discipline, Dancer

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• I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

  Rupert Everett

  Years, People, Flying

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• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  Mike Ferguson

  Spiritual, Powerful, Leader

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• There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

  Woody Harrelson

  Hayek

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• We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.

  Murray Bookchin

  Spring, Ocean, Journey

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• We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Half, Alive, Literature

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• The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

  Erich Fromm

  Fear, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.18, Lantern Books

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Change, Passion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Obvious, Contemplating

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• Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Work, Funny Music

  'Private Lives' (1930) act 1

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• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Literature, Littles

  Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133

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• Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

  Joseph Priestley

  Mind, Might, Steps

  Joseph Priestley, John Towill Rutt (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.346

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• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  Wade Boggs

  Positive, Attitude, Ties

  "The Frame We Put Around Our Circumstances" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.

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• People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Leadership, Extraordinary Person

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• I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Blessed, Opportunity, Today

  "Debating The First Latina Supreme Court Nominee". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Heart, Wonderful

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Success, Being Yourself

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

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