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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ↗

— Pam Brown

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The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. ↗

— Phil Gramm

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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

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The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

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And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. ↗

— Viola Davis

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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

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