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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

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A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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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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