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• Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Believe, Comfort And Joy, Giving

  R. C. Sproul, Jr. (2012). “The Call to Wonder: Loving God Like a Child”, p.140, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A lyrical and riveting testament to the strength of the human spirit, as well as the power of family and community. Ward's paragraphs are like songs, lifting us even as the authenticity of this world and these characters keeps the ground in clear sight. This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary writer.

  Skip Horack

  Beautiful, Song, Book

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• Whether it is a call to action for blood drives, disaster relief, or just community outreach, the American Red Cross does an extraordinary job at not only meeting the immediate needs of a community, but also the preparation and planning for long-term support.

  Darius Rucker

  Jobs, Blood, Long

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• I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

  Ben Kingsley

  Children, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Brian Linder, www.ign.com. July 28, 2004.

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• Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It's a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I've ever taken on.

  Brad Pitt

  Children, Book, Love You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!

  Martha Plimpton

  Dog, Morning, Voters

  "Emmy Reactions: What the Nominated Stars and Execs Say". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 14, 2011.

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• I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

  Bernie Mac

  Jobs, Stars, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

  Robin Williams

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

  William Shatner

  Forever, Mind, Example

  William Shatner, David Fisher (2009). “Up Till Now: The Autobiography”, p.342, Macmillan

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• I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.

  Bill Nye

  Religious, Views, Years

  "Bill Nye defends evolution in Kentucky debate", The Times and Democrat. Orangeburg, South Carolina, February 4, 2014.

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• Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.

  Howard Zinn

  School, Cities, Law

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• There's always a new thing happening to me that's even more extraordinary, so pressure gets harder. But I like it when it's hard. Anyone can do it when it's easy. When it's hard and you can do it good, you're proud of yourself. There's going to be more pressure as the years go by, that's for sure. But I think I'm a hard worker and I'm ready for that. As long as I believe in what I'm doing, the pressure is okay with me.

  Celine Dion

  Believe, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

  Debbie Ford

  Divorce, Use, Moments

  Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• If becoming your most extraordinary self doesn't inspire you,
  if claiming your greatness doesn't get you moving in the morning,
  if you don't think you are worthy of going after your best life,
  then dedicate this year to someone else and make it your best for them.

  Debbie Ford

  Morning, Moving, Greatness

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• Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

  Michael Caine

  Magic, Ordinary, Three

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• Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

  Richard Attenborough

  Unique, Thinking, Cinema

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• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  Salma Hayek

  Feelings, Obsession, Obsessed

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• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Logic, Forgotten

  "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

  Twiggy

  People, Ordinary, Sixty

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• My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

  Susan Sullivan

  Movement, Timing, Wave

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving it or receiving it, you become magnanimous to the rest of the world. That’s why people in love can do extraordinary things!.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Giving, Effort

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• I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Sports, Stars, Want

  "I walk every day with my dogs and force myself to run a bit but I hate it". www.imdb.com.

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• We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society

  Hal Holbrook

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Average, Ordinary

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• I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Kicking, Cinema, Actors

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