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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 P. Moynihan

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.
John Engler

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
Chris Van Allsburg

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Stephen Gardiner

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Fritz Kreisler

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
Henry James Sumner Maine

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
John Moody

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
Kenneth G. Wilson

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

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
Nassau William Senior

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
R. W. Apple, Jr.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.
Paul Cellucci

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
John Vinocur

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Dean Stanley

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
Malcolm Wallop

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
Lascelles Abercrombie

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley

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