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An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
Experts
Bum Phillips

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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Procrastination
Charles Richter

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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Action
Jean Paul Richter

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Risk
Jim Rohn

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Events
Salman Rushdie

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
Preachers and Preaching
Martin Scorsese

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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Diligence
William Shakespeare

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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Possibilities
Steven Spielberg

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
Drugs
Peter Townsend

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.
Enthusiasm
Source Unknown

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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
Purpose
Source Unknown

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Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
Determination
Source Unknown

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Risk
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
Experts
Oscar Wilde

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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
Royalty
George F. Will

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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
self-esteem
Woodrow T. Wilson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun