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“All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.”

Years Two Study Air Students Months Summer Ordinary Dues Instruction Two Months

Author:Howard Pyle

“Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.”

People Done Air Standards Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Loathe Extraordinary Things Patronizing

Book:Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)

“The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.”

Men Millions Air Ordinary Fellows Extraordinary Fighter Aviation Combat One In A Million

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.”

Light Air Ordinary Breaths Mediums

Author:Robert Pinsky

“He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.”

“It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.”

Ifs May Said Book Used Spirit Air Society Ordinary Diets Aphorism Lungs

Author:Frances Osborne

“I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.”

Running Air Ordinary Breathe Fresh Air Motivational Running Ultra Marathon

Book:Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)”

“I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.”

Ifs Way Littles Running Too Much Air Health Ordinary Breathe Intense Health Care Couches Fresh Air Sluggish Ultra Marathon

Author:Dean Karnazes

“[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and the Sacrament [i.e., communion/Eucharist/Lord's supper], and incorporated it in the Word and preaching. To our eyes Baptism [capitalized in original] appears to be nothing more than ordinary water, and the Sacrament of Christ's body and blood simple bread and wine, like other bread and wine, and the sermon, hot air from a man's mouth. But we must not trust what our eyes see.”

“The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.”

“[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

“Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."”

Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander

“What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?”

Stars Cities Air Wind Equal Ordinary Ideals Perfection Hot Everyday Clouds Floating June Arizona Platonic Hot Days Tubas

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness