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Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of...

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Quote by Roger Penrose about nation

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about self-control, man

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play...

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Quote by Al Alvarez about opinion

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about quality, stability, proudness, nation, success, people

Funnily enough, people ask me what is it like being a...

Funnily enough, people ask me what is it like being a celebrity. Well, I live an ordinary, simple life.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about life, celebrity, being, people

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Quote by Billy Idol about rocks, art, magic, people

If you spend an extra ordinary amount of time developing a list of things NOT to forget when going to the upcoming Regional or National match, the day of packing for the match, you will have lost the list.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, things, day, contentment, time

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great...

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about mind

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one...

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about intelligence, originality, people, man

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by...

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about virtue, man, life

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Quote by Alice Paul about opinion, equality, problems, rightness, nothing

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief...

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

Quote by Erich Fromm about power, danger, man

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, emotions, feelings, affair, use, poets

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense...

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about soul, common sense, sense, body, god

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength...

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Quote by Christopher Reeve about heroism, perseverance, obstacles

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry, emotions, prison, language, word, power

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way...

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Quote by Roberto Rossellini about opinion, events

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

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