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“Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.”

Made Body Moving Social Results Gains Weight Extraordinary Athlete Oneself Profession Accepted Meant To Be Being Accepted

Author:Kim Chernin

“But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.”

Persons Able Difficult Views Taken Gains Extraordinary Insight Indication

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.”

Opportunity Waiting Wealth Building Keys Gains Extraordinary Preserves Building Wealth

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.”

Ifs Mistake Pieces Gains Advantage Fortune Extraordinary Reputation Honour You Choose Expecting Good Fortune

Book:History of Greece

Source: History of Greece

“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.”

May Company Principles Practice Dangerous Capable Consequence Gains Trade Extraordinary Occasions Strict Banking Speculation Flattering Strict Rules

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.”

Men Use Millions Fit Gains Extraordinary Boast Elders Wands

Author:J. K. Rowling

“When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.”

May Levels Awareness Discipline Ordinary Gains Extraordinary Seekers Entrances

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry