“Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.” MenIndividualNationsNumbersTakenHigherActivityOrdinaryIdealsActiveEmployedComposingOrdinary Man Author:Matthew Arnold
“Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.” PeopleIfsThinkingAmericaPoliticianRepublicanHappeningsOrdinaryDemocratActivePrimariesFasterBehaveMinoritiesRealisingLockedGlobesErosionAmerican PowerStagsAntlers Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.” MatterUseFormCitiesInfluenceObjectsOrdinaryAreasEdgesActiveBordersMassiveTerritoryPassivePerimeter Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.” LightAgeWantedYoungImaginationChildhoodOrdinaryScaredActiveClosetsMy ImaginationYoung Age Author:Stephen King
“Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.” MovingChoicesPowerfulResponsibilityTeachPowerAcceptanceBecomingSkillsOrdinaryIntentionIntuitionActiveFocusedSurfaceLife ChangingWho We AreWillingness Book:Fearless Living Source: Fearless Living
“There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.” ProblemDemocracyCitizensOrdinaryActiveCitizenshipNo ProblemDaily WorkOrdinary CitizensActive Citizenship Author:Joan Claybrook
“Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!” IfsMindMatterWholeHappensLyingAttitudeBuddhismAmountOrdinaryDeterminationPerseveranceActiveEnormousExpectingConventionalRelaxedTenseStressedMake It HappenPerseverance And Determination Author:Tenzin Palmo
“It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.” TwoRealUseHateEnemyOrdinaryActiveDespise Author:E. W. Howe
“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.” DoeFactsLightActionScienceCertainMonthsElementsOrdinaryRemainsRadioActiveExperimentsCeaseObservationPreparationPhenomenonRaysRadiationDecayParticlesEmissionsAlphasFoilsMagnesiumAluminium Author:Frederic Joliot-Curie