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«I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.»
Author: Alice Paul
(Author, Founder, Lawyer, Social Reformer)
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«Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.»
Author: Angelique Arnauld
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«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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«Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Democracy
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«Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.»
«Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.»
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.»
«The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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