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“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

“When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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 it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can’t allow myself to be ordinary!”

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Author:Zoro

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

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Book:The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.”

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Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.”

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Author: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 - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature”

Source: The Sufis

“All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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 destiny of nations.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.”

“The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.”

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Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“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, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.”

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Author: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 animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.”

“I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.”

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Author:Ray Davies

“The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.”

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Author:John Prine

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