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“Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.”

People Social Leader Produce Involved Majors Ordinary Productions Indispensable Social Change Ordinary People

“[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.”

Years Light Science Air Ordinary Rate Holes Electric Molecules Bulbs Light Bulb Electric Light

Author:Francis William Aston

“Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Believe Wells Done Government Wealth Party Ordinary Tea Impulse Candidates Voting Voters Ordinary People Tea Party

Author:William J. Clinton

“I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

Inspirational Littles Talent Ordinary All Things Extraordinary Perseverance Doctrine Perserverance

Author:Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

“My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with the simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions... I intend also to emphasise the fact that it is not alone with the separation and identification of products from the animal that our present studies deal; but with their reactions in the body; with the dynamic side of biochemical phenomena.”

“Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.”

Life Law Science Expression Ordinary Chemicals

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium.”

“But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter.”

Source: Boyle on Atheism

“How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.”

Way Trying Years Has Beens Science Left Research Ordinary Instance Mortals Mathematical Heat Swim Mathematician Superiority Equations Sink Or Swim Differential Equations

Author:Clifford Truesdell

“Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.”

Serious Expression Ordinary Illness Dissatisfaction

Author:Paul Tournier

“Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.”

People Knows Seems Christian Natural Religious Atheism Ordinary Scientist Religious Faith Perfectly Natural

Author:William Daniel Phillips

“Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.”

Should Firsts Said Action Lasts Language Common Moral Psychology Ordinary Ethics Common Sense Last Words Discarded Austin

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.”

Humans Persons Spiritual Natural Human Beings Situation Circumstances Ordinary Capacity Hopeless

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.”

Men Inspirational Mind Heart Important Values Meditation Findings Ordinary Logic Treasure Mundane Upside Down Abnormal Ordinary Man Power Over Others

Author:Rajneesh

“With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.”

“We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.”

Moments Use Simple Powerful Knowing Ordinary Wake Up Each Day Ordinary Days

Author:Orlando Bloom

“...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.”

“Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers. Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.”

“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

“The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on.”

“When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!”

Ordinary Extraordinary Wrestling Trust In God Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.”

World Matter Motivation Deals Missing Approach Ordinary Extraordinary Our World

Author:Tom Nelson

“None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Feelings Born Special Inspirational Life Essentials Ordinary Birthright Special You

Book:Renewal: A Guide to the Values-Filled Life

Source: Renewal: A Guide to the Values-Filled Life

“It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.”

Firsts Long Real Bigs Next Steps Figures Football Long Time Ordinary Nfl Right Direction Next Steps Best Football Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Deacon Jones

“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”

Men Whole Use Hate Universe Realizing Masters Solitude Ordinary Ordinary Man

Author:Laozi

“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.”

People Thinking Needs Looks Country Government Leadership Ordinary Ordinary People Spoons

Author:Ian Kiernan

“You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And if you don't go for great, you won't end up with good. You've got to go beyond your wildest dreams because the exigencies of filmmaking are going to smash you into the ordinary.”

Ifs Thinking Should Art Ends Dream Motivation Ordinary Settling Editors Nuts Filmmaking Wildest Dreams Never Settle

Author:Fred Schepisi

“All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.”

“My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.”

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.”

Mind War Ordinary Murder Commit Anti War No War

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide.”

Men Feels May Important Different Political Lost Differences Class Power Issues Ordinary Men And Women Alternatives Citizenship Ordinary Man Important Issues Lost Faith Unmotivated

Author:Patricio Aylwin

“Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!”

Ifs World Writing Facts Able Given Effects Lucky Ordinary Sentences Handle Acknowledge Solitary Confinement Solitary Confinement Ordinary World

Author:Peter Straub

“The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.”

Writing Fiction Ordinary Accidents Confusion Distraction Ordinary Life

Book:New and selected essays

Source: New and selected essays

“Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.”

Writing Trying Age Today Mankind Ordinary Tables Breakfast Solar System

Author:Darcy O'Brien

“I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.”

Writing Long Enough Seeing Ordinary Blame Extraordinary Marvelous Journal Scratches Remarks Commonplace

Book:Conversations with Saul Bellow

Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow

“There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.”

Football Ordinary Ears Everyday Speed Noise Soccer Wheels Ecstasy Vulgar Stadiums Splitting

Author:Milan Kundera

“Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.”

People Problem Used Situation Mystery Ordinary Everyday Solve Chess Typical Everyday Life Ordinary Life

Author:Garry Kasparov

“"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."”

“As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy.”

Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals

“The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.”

Way Problem Speak Language Wish Serious Ordinary Structure Atoms

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.”

“Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.”

Soul Whole Earth Couple Lovers Ordinary Mates Transforming Grandeur Soul Mate Tantra

Book:From R to Z

Source: From R to Z

“Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.”

Ordinary Excellence Extraordinary

Author:Samuel Mockbee

“One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.”

“The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.”

People Democracy Ordinary Democratic Ordinary People Suitable

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.”

Men Would Be Powerful Power Rich Groups Judging Exercise Members Ordinary Minorities Terrified Favour Discretion Ordinary Man Prosecutor Minority Groups

Author:Conrad Black

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being”

People Ifs World Love Humans Life Is Effort Greater Ordinary True Love Climate Change Convinced This Life Ordinary People Healed Web Of Life

Author:Joanna Macy

“I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.”

Ifs Thinking Ordinary Climate Change Weather Blokes

Author:Nigel Lawson

“The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.”

People Faces Belief Given President Chance Liberty Democracy Danger Ordinary Extremes Tyranny Voting Globes President Bush Enslavement Given A Chance

Author:John Ensign

“We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character.”

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