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• Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

  Jostein Gaarder

  Adventure, Wandering Around, World

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• Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

  Jon Gordon

  Commitment, Successful, People

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• Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Positive Thinking, Possible And Impossible, People

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• Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

  Arthur Erickson

  Doe, Inspired, Consciousness

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• To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

  William Hazlitt

  Race, Ridiculous, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.486

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• Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

  Matthew Henry

  Punishment, Grace, Trials

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Book of Job - Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse”, p.188, Editora Dracaena

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• Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Teamwork, Moving, Adversity

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  It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

  Liam Neeson

  Inspirational, Baby, Race

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• It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Population, Projects

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Flying, Insulting, England

  Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.

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• In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

  Aaron Rose

  Positive Thinking, Light, Right Time

  "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.

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• The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

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• But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

  John Leeson

  Here I Am, Actors, Today

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• Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Somewhere Else, Things I Love

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• I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

  Rob Lowe

  Men, Way, Events

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• All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

  Brian Perkins

  Ordinary, Fantasy, Truth Is

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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Communication, Skills, People

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• It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

  Brian Perkins

  Extinction, Faces, Fantasy

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• Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

  Mink Stole

  Kids, Our Family, Ten

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• It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Talent, Saddest, Amount

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• I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

  Trent Parke

  Photography, Light, Forever

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• God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving Up, Hero, People

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• Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Taken, Soul

  "Deneuve hits out at 'soulless' Hollywood". www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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