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• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, Long, Shining

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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• I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Scare, Mediocrity

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• Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

  Gautama Buddha

  Firsts

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• Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Inspiration, Holy

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• All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

  Thomas Huxley

  Knowledge, Science, May

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

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• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, People, Literature

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• Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

  Darcy O'Brien

  Writing, Age, Trying

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• The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

  Kristin Hannah

  Pain, Men, Choices

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• I am an ordinary person.

  Frances McDormand

  Ordinary Person, Persons

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, People

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• To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Equality, Complicated, Equal Rights

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Hero, People, Selfless

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• I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Talent, Given

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  I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ideas, Philosopher, Judgment

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Hopeless, Natural

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  I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Equality, Rights

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Change, Eggs, Goes On

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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  Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ordinary World, Soul, Dimensions

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• The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

  Jack Gilbert

  Summer, Rain, Night

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

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• Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

  Annie Proulx

  Party, Games, Social

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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