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This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.

Shania Twain

Jobs, Pain, Brain

Song: Honey I'm Home

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There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit.

Walter Russell

Eye, Light, Secret

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We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

John Updike

Kings, Hero, Writing

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There are things which happen through effort, and there are things which happen only through effortlessness. There are things which will never happen through effort, and there are things which will never happen through effortlessness. All that is mundane happens through effort; all that is worldly happens through effort. And all that is sacred, other-worldly, happens through effortlessness.

Rajneesh

Effort, Sacred, Happens

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The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

Rajneesh

Inspirational, Heart, Men

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Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

Thomas Jefferson

Believe, Liberty, Principles

Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.152

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When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.

Galen Rowell

Photography, Light, Differences

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Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

Kim Fowley

Reality, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Spiritual, Ambition, Reality

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I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

Deborah Norville

Creative, Magic, Looks

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We all get habituated, right? You get up in the morning, have your coffee, and read your newspaper, and that’s great. Everybody loves life in its mundane, daily aspects. It’s what makes us feel secure. But I also start to go numb a little bit and I don’t see what’s around me. So I put myself in a new situation and suddenly I’m really seeing the person next to me, hearing music, and I’m smelling, and I can’t help but want to write it down.

Dorianne Laux

Morning, Coffee, Writing

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I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

Lee Friedlander

Photography, Dream, Art

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Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?

Robert Silverberg

Unique, Feelings, World

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Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is entering into a totally different dimension - the dimension of the mysterious and the miraculous. Now it is becoming religious, sacred, it is no longer profane.

Rajneesh

Religious, Sex, Different

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Day in and day out we do the same thing,
Tryina find the joy in our repetition.
Always complainin' about the routine and the mundane.
But let me stop to remind y'all bout one thing:
Come hell or high water you can count on the sun
Always shinin' in its untamed glory.

Phonte

Rap, Water, Hip Hop

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It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

Prentice Marshall

Reality, Numbers, Cheerleader

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Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Geoffrey Fisher

Retirement, Book, Writing

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Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

Zeena Schreck

Self Esteem, Godly, Mundane Life

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This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

David Henry Hwang

Air, Listening, World

David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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God’s purpose is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”2 That is fundamental to all we do. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God’s objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.

Richard G. Scott

Responsibility, Men, Sight

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Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Gary Hamel

Justice, Leader, Soul

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Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.

Bob Herbold

Inspirational, Ideas, Individual

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Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

Erwin Rommel

Smart, Men, Giving

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While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people to ignore it or to look in the wrong places for it. The vast majority of Father's children have not only forgotten their Father in Heaven and the purpose of mortal life, but they rarely even think of Him nor ponder for what purpose they are here in mortality. They have been led to be absorbed by mundane things that distract them from the essential ones. Don't you make that mistake.

Richard G. Scott

Children, Father, Mistake

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On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

Alan Moore

Mad, Interesting, Midlife

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