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• The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Confusion, Fiction

  Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc

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• I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

  Saul Bellow

  Writing, Long, Scratches

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

  Milan Kundera

  Soccer, Football, Everyday

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• Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

  Garry Kasparov

  People, Everyday, Typical

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• "You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."

  Sam Abell

  Meaningful, Photography, Taken

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• As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Dog, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Wish, Atoms, Way

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• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Awards, Tchaikovsky

  "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.

  Rajneesh

  Couple, Soul, Earth

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Excellence, Extraordinary

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• One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.

  Lewis Henry Steiner

  Mean, Men, Differences

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• The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  People, Democracy, Democratic

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• While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

  Conrad Black

  Powerful, Exercise, Men

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• If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being

  Joanna Macy

  Love, Web Of Life, People

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• I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

  Nigel Lawson

  Thinking, Weather, Climate Change

  "They cheat, I tell you". Interview with Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.

  Joel Osteen

  Passion, Miracle, Want

  Joel Osteen (2015). “Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

  Marc Newson

  Ordinary Things, Taxi

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• There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

  Sam Walton

  Encouragement, Opportunity, People

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.13, Bantam

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• Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Library, Tvs

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2017

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• What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...

  Joy Williams

  Dark, People, Stories

  "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.

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• Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Wish, Modern

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.218, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

  Thomas Merton

  Alive, Ordinary Things, Splendor

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• When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Goal, Roaring, Earth

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• All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

  Dalai Lama

  Quality, Realization, Persons

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• We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears and insecurities. As a result God change them and use them to accomplish some mind-boggling things. Why couldn't God - why wouldn't God do the same in your life?

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Men, Hair

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