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“By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.”

Feels Taken Ordinary Lifetime Ordinary Life

Author:Margaret Mahy

“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.”

“Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.”

Taken Proud Ordinary Cooking Profession France Chef Seriousness

Author:Julia Child

“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”

Men Taken Ordinary Army Died Iron Prisoner Ordinary Man Bronze

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.”

Men Individual Nations Numbers Taken Higher Activity Ordinary Ideals Active Employed Composing Ordinary Man

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.”

Men Long Lasts Natural Taken Ordinary Simplicity Manners Dread Attainment Being Natural

Author:Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

“I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.”

Knows Said Sometimes Might Animal Taken Ordinary Enormous Giants Jest

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.”

Thinking Men Humans Self Human Beings Taken Ordinary Average Capability Ordinary Man Average Man

Author:Abraham Maslow

“But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.”

Moments Use Remember Courses Taken Seeing Ordinary Cameras Digital

Author:David Hockney

“The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.”

Philosophy Used Language Common Accepting Taken Ordinary Philosopher Doctrine Common Sense Inevitable Daily Life Maintaining Muddle

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.”

Christian Church Taken Middle Grew Grew Up Ordinary Awful Granted Taken For Granted Middle Of The Road

Author:N. T. Wright

“By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.”

Giving Doe Real Lines Taken Color Ordinary Harmony Combination Symphony Pretext Motifs

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.”

“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.”

People Thinking Should Believe Looks I Believe Easy Simple Laughing Taken Ordinary Photographer Photograph Touched Ordinary People Wince

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon