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“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.”

“With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.”

Humans Has Beens Nature Security Human Nature Quiet Ordinary Advantage Extraordinary Tranquility Profitable Obedient Brethren Ordinary And Extraordinary Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:Robert Toombs

“For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.”

Writing Light Eye Ordinary Advantage Scripture Dust Bees Considering Obscure Casting Scope Artifice

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Persons Jobs Work Failing Position Ordinary Advantage Performances Organization Credit Expected Establishment Inherent Competence Competent

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.”

Ifs World Way Looks Persons Seems Motivational Opportunity Effort Attitude Situation Possibility Ordinary Conscious Advantage Luck Opening One Way New Opportunity

Author:Ken Robinson

“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?”

Ifs Literature Materials Prove Draws Ordinary Advantage Vegetarian Creeds Dirtiness

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.”

“Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.”

Humans Remember Spirit Realizing Enemy Like You Pure Ordinary Advantage Pressure Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.”

People Spiritual Social Justice Common Class Materials Diversity Ordinary Advantage Pressure Social Justice Depth Intensity Epic Handicaps Social Pressure Common Experience

Book:Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

Source: Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.”

“There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.”

Mean States Government Justice Ordinary Advantage Criminals Administration Belonging Provinces State Government Federalism

Author:Alexander Hamilton