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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
Edmund Hillary
Folks do not choose to be remarkable. They opt to undertake remarkable feats.
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
Gerard Way
Imbued with greatness, common people rise above the mundane and become remarkable.
3.
Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.
Jimmy Doolittle
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If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.
Peter Deunov
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He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.
Shang Yang
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For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.
Jody Williams
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I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
Clare Balding
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It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
Epictetus
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I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.
Samuel L. Jackson
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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
Andrew Motion
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One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.
Gretchen Rubin
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Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.
Alan Ryan
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The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.
Mary McCarthy
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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
Susan Rice