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• We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

  Mark Millar

  Skulls, People, Mind

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• Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

  Ted Dekker

  Lonely, Taken, Intelligent

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• The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.

  Stephen King

  Crazy, Winning, People

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• there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

  Tom Brokaw

  Beach, Greatness, People

  Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Magic, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.304, Random House

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• I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

  Edward Abbey

  Simple, Everyday, Tangible

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

  Deborah Harkness

  Simple, Want, Enjoy

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

  Jerry Bridges

  Scripture, Sovereign, Daily Life

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God Study Guide: Even When Life Hurts”, p.34, Tyndale House

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• His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most ordinary words become poetry. When he stands close to you, your life becomes a song, a praise. When he touches you, your smallest talents become gold; the most ordinary loves break your heart with their beauty.

  Martine Leavitt

  Song, Heart, Voice

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• I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, People, Looking Good

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.7, Random House

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• I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Fear, Real

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 04, 2014

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• The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fun, Pain, Insecure

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• There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Ordinary Life

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• She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

  Nora Roberts

  Eye, Like Love, Tragedy

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• ...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.

  M.M. Kaye

  Life, Beautiful, Quality

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• Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.

  Christopher Paolini

  Long, Magic, Enemy

  "Brisingr: Book Three". Book by Christopher Paolini, September 20, 2008.

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• Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

  James Allen

  Beautiful, Peace, Self

  James Allen (2012). “As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity”, p.22, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• "You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret."

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Practice, People

  "Siddhartha".

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• The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

  Andrew Murray

  Prayer, Humility, Trying

  Andrew Murray (2016). “Humility: The Beauty of Holiness”, p.25, Gideon House Books

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• I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Dog, Hate

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, A&C Black

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• A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspiring, Travel, Men

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• jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Long, Evil

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• The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

  Rachel Joyce

  Feet, Long, People

  Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.150, Random House

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• With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Father, Everyday, Details

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.312, Faber & Faber

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• Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Imperfect

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