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No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor… — Helen Rowland
A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won’t lose to… — Zoro
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. — Muhammad Ali
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, — George Herbert
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important -… — Idries Shah
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste,… — Augustine Birrell
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer,… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star. — Ray Davies
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the… — Harpo Marx
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys,… — William Osler
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any… — Winston Churchill
The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept… — Ernest Hemingway
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman.… — Pope Francis
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. — Erich Fromm
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. — Aleister Crowley
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. — Nelson Mandela
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. — Henry Miller
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. — George Orwell
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. — Ezra Pound

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