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“It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.”

Giving Clear Imagine Serious Ordinary Harder Broads Users Pirate Drm

Author:Edward Felten

“Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.”

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Author:Ron Shelton

“If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.”

Ifs World Want Trying Looks Moments Bigs Ability Powerful Imagine Ordinary Core Leap Making Changes I Want A Woman

Author:Liya Kebede

“We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?”

Fire Imagine Ordinary Woods Holes Metals Crew Drills

Author:Marc Singer

“It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.”

People Knows Persons Sometimes Whole Would Be Kids Imagine Ordinary Single Person Wheelchairs Auditoriums

Author:R. J. Palacio

“I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.”

World Firsts Heart Kind Fun Parent Path Imagine Rocks Ordinary Related Exhaustion Being A Parent Ordinary World Family First

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.”

Way Book Ends Stories Turns Stuff Effort Imagine Written Reader Pages Ordinary Revelations The End Of The Day Imagine That Revealing Fast Paced Simply Love Minimal Effort

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Trying Enough Wanted Simple Morning Alive Imagine Ordinary Shocking

Book:The Hours: A Novel

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.”

Men Needs Long Country Enough Shows Might America Turns Accepting Imagine Genius Citizens Ordinary Men And Women Capacity Betray Monument Ordinary Man

Author:Cornel West

“For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.”

People Giving Matter Found Millions Imagine Effects Events Shapes Ordinary Caught Melody Caught Up Ordinary People Great Events

Book:Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

“I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.”

Thinking World Trying Interesting Imagine Ordinary Very Interesting Ordinary Things

Author:Chris Van Allsburg

“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes”

Source: Legend of lovers

“I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.”

People Ifs Want Humans Helping Feelings Young Grows Growing Up Imagine Duty Hero Ordinary Helping Others Heroic Secretary Housewife

Author:Miep Gies

“The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.”