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We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance... — Nichiren
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. — Stanley Milgram
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the… — Milton Friedman
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. — Charles de Gaulle
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. — Aleister Crowley
Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap.… — Howard Dean
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this… — Philip K. Dick
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to… — Lawrence Durrell
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and… — Stephen Hawking
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. — Hermann Hesse
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary… — Daryn Kagan
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on… — Stephen King
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That… — Doris Lessing
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. — Michel de Montaigne
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking. — Frances O'Grady
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak
The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies… — Tariq Ramadan
The Constitution was made for ordinary people. — Pat Robertson
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. — Steven Spielberg
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. — Ben Stein
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall… — Matt Taibbi
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order… — Pete Townshend

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