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• I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one person's shoulders. Extraordinary people carried that country through its darkest hours; truly inspirational. I suppose that's my theme. Whether it's a biography or a movie; whether it's fictional or true, I'm inspired by people doing great things.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Country, People

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• Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.

  Allan Boesak

  Government, People, Mind

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, People

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• We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.

  Nigel Barker

  Girl, Book, People

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• Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

  Joe Dempsie

  Darkness, Faces, Ordinary

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

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• It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Average, Long

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Mar 07, 2017

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• The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

  Charles C. Mann

  Technology, People, Ordinary

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• Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

  Paul David Tripp

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

  Cornel West

  People, Abuse, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jan 04, 2017

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• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  Frances O'Grady

  Opportunity, Government, People

  "A single mum and the first female face of trade unionism - meet Frances O'Grady, Queen of the TUC" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2012.

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• The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God--a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being--before ordinary people, we have gone wrong

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, People, Soul

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• Leadership isn’t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It’s a process ordinary people use when they’re bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.

  James M. Kouzes

  Men, People, Leader

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• Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  People, Giving, Design

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• Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Struggle, Rushing

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• Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

  Jim Valvano

  People, Ordinary, Extras

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• There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Community, Ordinary

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Jesus, Exercise

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• The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  People, Realizing, Bigs

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren't high enough, when they know those subsidies have actually gone up - I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people.

  Stephen Harper

  Home, Thinking, People

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• We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.216, Shambhala Publications

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• The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, People, Unemployment

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• ...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

  Richard Goldman

  People, Ordinary, Action

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• More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Country, Travel, Workout

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• Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

  Stanley Milgram

  Jobs, People, Ordinary

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.

  William Stringfellow

  Memories, Blessed, Taken

  William Stringfellow (2005). “A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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