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I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

– Isaac Newton

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I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

– Isaac Newton

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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

– Robert South

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I believe in livin' a life less ordinary... Yet extraordinary.

– Unknown

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The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.

– Cicero

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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good try to use ordinary situations.

– Jean Paul Richter

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Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

– Sharon Salzberg

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