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“The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.”

Knows Made Government America Father Opportunity Given Like You Citizens Ordinary Extraordinary Like Me Made It Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things Ordinary Citizens

Author:Mia Love

“I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.”

Order Given Ordinary Paint Enthusiasm Covered Lacking

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.”

Humans Individual Language Given Study Development Ordinary Tasks Accounts Independent Method Physics Objectives Judgement Human Experience Subjective Human Language

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.”

Two Given Produce Ordinary Anarchy Temper

Book:The Descendant

Source: The Descendant

“I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.”

Heart Children Use Able Given Parent Style Skills Ordinary Welfare Helpful Parenthood Warmth Great Faith

Author:Haim Ginott

“Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?”

Writing Matter Given Interest Memories Pieces Wonderful Modern Information Ordinary Mouths Salt Volume Packages Irreverent

Author:Ama Ata Aidoo

“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.”

Men Trying Kind Play Given Roles Trouble Expression Materials Perception Ordinary Data Perceive Consideration Material Things Ordinary Man Foils

Author:J. L. Austin

“Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.”

Ifs Shows Given Tvs Taxes Ordinary Congress Code Islands Survivor Bob Locked Tv Shows Sections Proposal Taxpayers Vaults

Author:Dave Barry

“Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.”

Bigs Light Given Sound Voice Simple United Influence Citizens Ordinary Bigger Green Access Ordinary Citizens Green Lights Citizens United

Author:Mark Shields

“Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.”

Way Hard Given Ability Hard Work Ordinary Capacity Extraordinary Accomplish Great Things Persistence Ordinary Things

Author:Lloyd D. Newell

“Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.”

Ifs Men World Given Natural One Thing Tree Sky Discipline Bird Ordinary Wings Doctrine Catechism

Author:Rajneesh

“There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given”

People Given Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Extraordinary Things

Author:Brad Brown

“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”

Men Humans Literature Given Human Beings Equal Ordinary Equality Sane Propositions Equality Of Man

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.”

“To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to making as writing is to speech: it is an ordinary physical activity pushed to a conscious edge. That interference with the given world can still be founded on admiration. Where it is not, what is the point of designing at all?”

Thinking World Writing Mean Stills Might Given Design Activity Speech Ordinary Conscious Edges Admiration Interfere Interference Physical Activity

Author:Robert Bringhurst

“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.”

“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.”

“I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.”

People Political Given Process Ordinary Ordinary People Recognise Joining Mandates Joining In

Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.”

People Law Choices Given Chance Secret Democracy Ordinary Police Tyranny Dictatorship Dictator Ordinary People Rule Of Law Secret Police

Author:Tony Blair

“Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.”

Men Given Authority Ordinary Willingness Expertise Qualifications Worthiness Priesthood Ordinary Man Ordination

Author:David A. Bednar

“Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?”

Humans Wells Joy Night Given Existence Sorrow Summer Ordinary Human Existence Closeness Joys And Sorrows Summer Nights

Author:Louise Glück

“Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.”

Matter Moments Given Ordinary Casual Fugitive

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.”

Want Humans Spirit Given Half Trouble Discipline Solitude Ordinary Recognition Code Pleasant Ingredients Indispensable Human Spirit Adequate Ordinary Life Penance One Deep

Author:Freya Stark

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”

Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

“Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.”

“I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.”

Knows Way Moments Might Life Is Given Our Lives Crazy Sorrow Ordinary Disguise Charming Defects Screws Intimidating Arithmetic Screw Ups

Book:Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“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.”

“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 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

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