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• Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, People, Connections

  "The Sociological Imagination". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1959.

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• The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Crazy, Apples, Madness

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• We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

  Catherine Doherty

  Hands, Needs, Passionate

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• Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

  Ralph Goodale

  Income, Mutual Fund, Affected

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• AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Grace, Suffering

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• We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.

  Thuli Madonsela

  People, Harm, Unstable

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• Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

  Maynard Amerine

  Wine, Fine, Pleasant

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• Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

  Laura Miller

  Children, Real, Book

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• Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

  Morley Baer

  Beautiful, Trying, Quitting

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• Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Today, Garbage, Journalism

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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• We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Motivation, Inspiration, Littles

  "All it takes is 10 mindful minutes". TED conference, www.ted.com. November 2012.

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• I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

  Martha Reeves

  Mundane Life, Way, Obligation

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• Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Past, People, Champion

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• There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.

  Paul Westhead

  Thunderbolts, Walking

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• Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

  George Parsons Lathrop

  Character, Order, Unseen

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• Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as if you are living in a fantasy world of a fable. This is an interesting and sad syndrome. I’m sure that I have that syndrome. If it’s not it, then why the heck does my every moment with the ordinary girl feel like a fable?

  Joo Won

  Girl, Interesting, Doe

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• By bringing the voices of the ordinary people faced with extraordinary challenges to television screens around the world, I hope to affect change in one community at a time.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Voice, People, Community

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• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Reading, Writing

  Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

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• The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.

  Robert Boyle

  Air, Blood, May

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• Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in one of which the electrons are in phase and out of phase. The energy of the system is successively transferred from one to the other - resonance!

  Linus Pauling

  Two, Energy, Phases

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• For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow?

  David Berlinski

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

  Edward Kasner

  Math, Views, Common Sense

  Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh

  Independent, Careers, Long

  "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. Rose, 1986.

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• Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Mean, Math

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

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• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Math, Squares

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1386, Library of America

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