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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. -- Woodrow Wilson
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation. -- Amit Kalantri
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. -- William Halsey
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men. -- Sir Fulke Greville
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. -- Orison Swett Marden
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? -- John Keegan
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. -- Rob Lowe
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. -- Denis Diderot
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution. -- Brian Greene
We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. -- Jack Reed
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men. -- Natalie Dormer
The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of. -- John Engler
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience. -- Bernadette Peters
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. -- Anne Lamott
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. -- Tahir Shah
There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. -- William Halsey
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. -- Seneca the Younger
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. -- John Maynard Keynes
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- E. B. White
Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants. -- Michel de Montaigne
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There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. -- Paulo Coelho

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