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If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
You
Property
Rights
People
Welfare
Matter
Dictatorship
Citizen
Power
Group
Worry
Running
About
Only
Small
Property Rights
Small Group
Very
Ordinary
Ordinary Citizen
Really
Who
Keep
How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?
Kenneth Branagh
You
Ignorance
Human Being
Cruelty
Cinderella
Neglect
About
Somehow
Triumphs
Underdog
Read
How
How Many Times
Subjected
Times
Often
Human
Being
Ordinary
Story
Who
Many
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life
Man
Soul
Natural
Liberty
Starvation
Starving
Worse
Him
His
Deny
Ordinary
Deprive
Then
Body
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
Neil Kinnock
You
Old
Fall
Young
Ordinary
Warn
Ill
Grow
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
Stephen Hawking
Time
Dimension
Angles
New
Real
Real Time
Ordinary
Right
Imaginary
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
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
Andy Warhol
Try
Extraordinary
Like
Make
Just
Happen
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Them
Paint
Things
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
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia
Speak
Party
Become
Increasingly
Claim
Though
Detached
Lawyers
Journalists
Academics
Democratic
Democratic Party
Democrats
American
Ordinary
Poor
Professional
Dispossessed
Why
Elite
We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Integrity
People
Build
Decency
Society
Savings
Resources
Corporate
Criminals
Defined
Plunder
Determined
Does
Nor
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Public
Theft
Tolerate
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
Great
People
Intelligence
Country
Ambition
Extraordinary
Corporations
Were
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Aggressiveness
Founded
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy
People
Conviction
Extraordinary
Possibilities
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Based
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
Happiness
Matter
Being Busy
Busy
Everyday
Unconcerned
Self
Most
Mode
Being
Ordinary
Lively
Consciousness
I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things.
Janet Mock
Women
Perspective
Enough
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Our
Claire
Out
Magazine
Part
Doing
Came
Offering
Often
Stories
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Things
Things
Chance
Marie
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
Joe Slovo
Capitalism
South Africa
Exploitation
Difficult
Immediately
See
Sees
Between
Terms
Alternative
South
Link
Person
Africa
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Socialist
Thinks
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee
People
Opportunity
Rise Above
Rise
Above
Seize
Reached
Truly
Expectations
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Milestones
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen Hawking
Time
People
Universe
Philosophers
Broad
Complete
Everyone
Able
Shall
Take
Part
Principle
Understandable
Scientists
Discover
Exist
Discussion
Just
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Then
Should
Theory
Why
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
You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
Victoria Osteen
God
You
Own
Masterpiece
Ordinary
Average
Means
Original
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Adam Weishaupt
Political
Sleepy
Deficient
Religious
Sadly
Because
Inefficient
Leave
Domination
Ordinary
Dose
Us
Prejudices
Sermon
Alas
Having realised that in cooking there was a vast field of study and development, I said to myself, 'Although I had not originally intended to enter this profession, since I am in it, I will work in such a fashion that I will rise above the ordinary, and I will do my best to raise again the prestige of the chef de cuisine.'
Auguste Escoffier
Work
Best
Myself
Fashion
Cooking
Will
Rise Above
Field
Enter
Prestige
Rise
Above
Having
Vast
Had
Study
Development
Since
Although
Chef
Said
Am
Cuisine
Intended
Ordinary
Realised
Again
Profession
Originally
Raise
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Benazir Bhutto
Government
Peace
Dignity
People
Progress
Opportunity
Gave
Security
Led
Ordinary
Ordinary People
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
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas
Fool
Become
Whatever
Own
Increase
Ease
Possess
Diminish
Vanity
Talents
May
Upset
Ordinary
Suddenly
Now
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Vocal
Direction
More
Take
Faculties
Part
Becomes
Brain
Listens
Ordinary
Conversations
Little
Organs
Apparent
Reasoning
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
Eugene H. Peterson
Life
You
Somewhere
Creation
Frame
See
Sabbath
Get
Ordinary
Place
Ordinary Life
Your
Keep
Away
Start
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