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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

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I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

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When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

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It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

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Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

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