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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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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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The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

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

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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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

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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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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

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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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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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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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Ordinary people can bring about change.

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