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«I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.»
Author: Alice Paul
(Author, Founder, Lawyer, Social Reformer)
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«It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.»
Author: Loren Eiseley
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Art
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«I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives»
«I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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amazing, notions, ordinary, ordinary people, preconceived, preconceived notion, set out
«If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.»
«I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.»
«It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.»
«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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achievements, conquer, enlightened, enlightening, foreknowledge, general, ordinary, prince, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Enemy
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