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“Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.”

Kind Ordinary Entertainment Complaining Usual Novelty Refreshments Satiety

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.”

Whole Together Values Land Produce Equal Ordinary Rate Profit Belonging Usual Agriculture Cultivation

Book:The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Source: The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

“I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.”

Humans Lying Social Kindness Violence Human Nature Thousand Ten Ordinary Claims Response Bounds Stability Aggressive Usual Rooted Ignored Frequency Acts Of Kindness Spades Geniality

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.”

Way Class Ordinary Privilege Racist Usual Polite Sexist Class Privilege

Book:How to Suppress Women's Writing

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

“To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.”

Men Choices Vision Ordinary Usual

Book:The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

Source: The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”

World Humans Two Feelings Humanity Girl Class Ordinary Weakness Superiors Classic Divided Usual Ordinary Girl

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”

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Author:Thomas Merton