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• Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

  Marvin Olasky

  Tired, Organization, Effort

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• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  C. Everett Koop

  Mean, Target Audience, Care

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• Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

  Graham Norton

  Bored, Meetings, Persons

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• To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

  Larry Wall

  May, Explicit, Folks

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• It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Country, Average, Female

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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• If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it-pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. Artistic fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions-and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

  Julia Cameron

  Fear, Humble, Yield

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• Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Mother, Fear, Lying

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• I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

  Kristin Hannah

  Country, Fear, Children

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• When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Eye, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage.

  Phil Cousineau

  Powerful, Believe, Journey

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• Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

  Eleanor Catton

  Real, Essence, Perfect

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• Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

  E. L. Doctorow

  Tables And Chairs, Justice, Church

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• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  C. K. Williams

  Writing, Waiting, Different

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• Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

  Edmund Hillary

  Quality, Adventuring, Persons

  "Sir Edmund Hillary, First Man to Conquer Mount Everest, Dies at 88", www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2008.

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• I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fighting, Reality, Fantasy

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• I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

  Andy Warhol

  Trying, Paint, Happens

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• Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

  George Herbert

  Men, Heaven, Wells

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

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• The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Determination, Block

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• Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Grieving, People

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• A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

  Anuj

  Lying, Heart, Character

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• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  Idries Shah

  Book, Mean, Way

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  Idries Shah

  Spiritual, Struggle, Sleep

  Idries Shah (1964). “The Sufis”, Anchor Books

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• I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Passion, Writing, Play

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• The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Hands, Majority

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• Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.

  Khem Veasna

  Country, People, President

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