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

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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

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It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

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

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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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