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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. ↗

— George Orwell

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The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ↗

— Graham Greene

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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