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We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored… — Jimmy Wales
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. — Gerard Way
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W.… — Naomi Wolf
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people… — Philip Zimbardo
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking… — Victor Hugo
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really… — Terry Pratchett
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going… — C.S. Lewis
A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... — Jonathan Kozol
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is… — C.S. Lewis
We meet no ordinary people in our lives. — C.S. Lewis
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. — Barack Obama
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about… — Studs Terkel
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the… — Oscar Wilde
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their… — Jodi Picoult
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible!… — Diane Duane
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects… — Orson Scott Card
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when… — Stanley Milgram
We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary-… — Ricky Gervais
I’ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it’s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that’s probably just because… — Stephenie Meyer
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean… — Anne Lamott
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what… — Paul Hawken

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