“ The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. ”
- Thomas Traherne- Copy
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“ Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action. ”
- Alice Childress- Copy
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“ Sanctity does not so much depend upon doing extraordinary actions, as upon doing our ordinary actions extraordinarily well. ”
- Richard Challoner- Copy
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“ I did not do such a great job restraining myself. But if Howard can do better than me and restrain himself, I think he's going to do the other roles of a chairman extraordinarily well. ”
- Edward G. Rendell- Copy
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“ There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ To be successful, you don't have to do extraordinary things. Just do ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
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“ Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Angelique Arnauld- Copy
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“ Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself. ”
- Arthur Hailey- Copy
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“ Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ Exceed expectations. We are not driven to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Bishop Gore- Copy
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“ Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ”
- Wilhelm Reich- Copy
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“ Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. ”
- Anne Perry- Copy
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“ His voice is his great weapon. It is not an orator's voice. It is husky, and sometimes it fades to a whisper. Meanwhile, it is extraordinarily intimate. Mr Reagan does not speak to audiences; he speaks to individuals. ”
- John Corry- Copy
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“ It seems to us an extraordinarily incongruous thing that we have a sport in which two people are literally paid to get into a ring and try to beat one another to death, or at least beat them into a state of senselessness which will then leave them permanently brain-damaged. ”
- Joseph F. Boyle- Copy
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“ The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. ”
- Gertrude Stein- Copy
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“ People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy. ”
- Friedrich Engels- Copy
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“ Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them… ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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