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  • Oscar Wilde Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Marcel Proust People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • C. K. Williams 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
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • George Orwell Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Blaise Pascal Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jim Rohn Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Aldous Huxley That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Asa Gray The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Barack Obama The change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Benazir Bhutto The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Thomas Moore The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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