Charles Dickens Quotes, Class Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

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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Be content with an ordinary life.

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This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

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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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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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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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When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

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

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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

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You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

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If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

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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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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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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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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

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We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

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