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• I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

  Ben Kingsley

  Destiny, Thinking, Stories

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• Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

  Claudia Christian

  Spontaneity, Spontaneous, Applause

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• La verdadera llamada de un cristiano no es hacer cosas extraordinarias, sino hacer cosas ordinarias de manera extraordinaria.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Amor, Cristiano, Ordinario

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). "Pensamientos que respiran"

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• Estados Unidos no es sólo una potencia, es una promesa. No basta con que nuestro país sea extraordinario en poderío; debe ser ejemplar en significado.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Country, America, Promise

  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1968). “Unity, Freedom & Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow”

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• In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

  Dean Koontz

  Glimpse, Ordinary, Littles

  Dean Koontz (2009). “A Big Little Life”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Infinite possibilities exist to create the previously un-creatable, think the unthinkable and do the undoable-it's an extraordinary time to be alive.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Thinking, Alive, Infinite

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• We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

  Eve Ensler

  Issues, Abnormal, Violence

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• Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Climbing, Effort, Pleasure

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• I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

  Sanford Bishop

  Military, Giving, Attention

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

  William Borah

  Passion, Sleep, Fire

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• Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

  Ian Hacking

  People, Plutonium, Made

  Ian Hacking (1999). “The Social Construction of What?”, p.105, Harvard University Press

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• I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's where I feel comfortable and confident and I get to explore these big human stories and dramas and collaborate with extraordinary people, great talented artists and administrators and other people who are passionate about it and support it. It's like working with a great big family - the family you love and enjoy being with all the time.

  Jake Heggie

  Drama, Home, Artist

  Fuente: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Mind, Way, Done

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Events, Chapters, Significance

  "More Obamessiah Worship Overlooked by MSM: Victory Worthy of Another Chapter in Bible". www.newsbusters.org. June 9, 2008.

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• The second rector of [St. John's in] Providence was blown out of church one Sunday by 'an extraordinary gust of wind,' and the people, welcoming this ejection as an act of heaven, refused to let him in again.

  George Hodges (teólogo)

  Sunday, Wind, People

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• The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Iraq

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• Cuando observo a fundadores y consejeros delegados como Mark Zuckerberg en Facebook, Brian Chesky en Airbnb y Sebastian Thrun en Udacity, me doy cuenta de que se trata de empresas que están creando un extraordinario bien social y un extraordinario empoderamiento económico y educativo, todo ello en el contexto de un modelo con ánimo de lucro.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Educativo, Zuckerberg, Crear

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• If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.

  William J Doherty

  Children, Couple, Achievement

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• Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Athlete, Practice, Achievement

  Chungliang Al Huang (2009). “Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life”, p.9, Bantam

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Fuente: www.today.com

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• We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Doe, Mediocre

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, And Love

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• No hay nada como la valentía, la fuerza y el extraordinario optimismo de un niño de cinco años en un hospital oncológico, luchando por vivir. Está ahí dentro del espíritu.

  Frank Langella

  Niños, Cáncer, Lucha

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

  Naomie Harris

  Revenge, Inspire, Forgiving

  Entrevista con Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. 23 de diciembre de 2013.

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