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• I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

  Miep Gies

  Growing Up, Hero, Helping Others

  "Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2010.

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• The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.

  John Dalton

  Summer, Country, Rain

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• Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Children, Class, Enjoy

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• Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

  Forrest Church

  Inspiring, Angel, Messengers

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• Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Brother, Selfish, Real

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• These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Training

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• This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

  Azim Daudpota

  Military, People, Imagination

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• To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

  Juan Cole

  Military, Iraq, Government

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• The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Spiritual, Men, Unity

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• With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons. Such a star may possess a very small radius and an extremely high density. As neutrons can be packed much more closely than ordinary nuclei and electrons, the gravitational packing energy in a cold neutron star may become very large, and under certain conditions may far exceed the ordinary nuclear packing fractions.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Stars, Science, Views

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• What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

  Paul Hawken

  Encouragement, Odds, Order

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• If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick a date. Let's plan this and make a party and get married.' Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world, and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you're still in love with that person, get married at the airport.

  Bill Murray

  Love, Party, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Love, Selfish, Heart

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• There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms is the sambhogakaya that can only be visited by highly realized Bodhisattvas. In the pure realm of the sambhogakaya, the Dharma is continuously taught. One sambhogakaya realm is Tushita, which is presided over by the next Buddha, the Maitreya Buddha. Buddha Shakyamuni dwelled there before coming to earth to give Dharma teachings.

  Thrangu Rinpoche

  Teaching, Mean, Giving

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• Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Independent, Consciousness, Grows

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

  Anne Scott

  People, Leader, Social

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• [S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

  Francis William Aston

  Science, Light, Air

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• I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Doctrine

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• My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our present studies deal; but with their reactions in the body; with the dynamic side of biochemical phenomena.

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Simple, Animal, Substance

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• Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Life, Science, Expression

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• Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.

  Frederic Joliot-Curie

  Science, Light, Preparation

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• But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Support, Quality

  Robert Boyle, John James MacIntosh (2005). “Boyle on Atheism”, p.326, University of Toronto Press

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• How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

  Clifford Truesdell

  Science, Years, Swim

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• Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

  Paul Tournier

  Expression, Serious, Illness

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• Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

  William Daniel Phillips

  Christian, Religious, People

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