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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
Work
Technology
Man
Men
Extraordinary
Machine
Ordinary
Ordinary Man
Ordinary Men
Fifty
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey
History
Men
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Circumstances
Circumstances
Forced
Deal
Just
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
C. Wright Mills
Try
Men
Live
Visions
Directly
Bounded
Powers
Limited
Private
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Men
Aware
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides
Brilliant
Too Much
Men
Too
Charge
Misfortune
Frequently
Affairs
Very
Expect
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Much
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
Women
Creativity
Mind
Men
Men And Women
Nothing
Extraordinary
Harmonious
Otherwise
Details
Feats
Inspires
Like
Discomfort
Perplexity
Quite
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Ingenuity
Awaiting
Resolution
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
David A. Bednar
Education
Experience
Men
Priesthood
Worthiness
Willingness
Given
Qualifications
Authority
Ordinary
Expertise
Ordinary Men
Ordination
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
Denis Diderot
Quality
Genius
Men
Machine
Some
Always
Gaiety
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Disorder
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
George Henry Lewes
Men
Nothing
Live
About
Objects
No Wonder
Feel
New
Learn
Wonder
Familiar
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Them
Nothing New
Grow
Among
Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.
Paul Greengrass
Men
Built
His
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Tom
Tom Hanks
Playing
Career
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
Roland Allen
Life
Needs
Trials
Experience
People
Church
Men
Understanding
Own
Living
Difficulties
Our
Touch
Sharing
Clergy
Also
Close
Personal
Personal Experience
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Ordinary Men
Among
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies
Time
Me
Men
Power
Impress
Gone
Most
Always
Been
Wonder
Where
Cannot
Ordinary
Conversational
Ordinary Men
Present
Present Time
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor
Great
Men
Lose
Great Men
Somewhat
Greatness
Being
Gain
Ordinary
Ordinary Men
Us
Much
Near