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en We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us

en Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
  Mother Teresa of Calcutta

en You have those rare occasions when an issue gets a lot of publicity and coverage and that's when most legislators would vote in accordance with the mainstream views back home. But those are rare occasions. On most issues and most bills, the level of public concern and understanding is, frankly, very low. And when that goes down, the amount of power and influence lobbyists have in that (Statehouse) goes up. That is true on most issues.

en Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
  Samuel Butler

en [The Perimeter also has a unique function for ordinary citizens.] More than any other road in the state, it's a transfer road, ... It's not a through road, and it's not a destination road.

en Why is New Hampshire entitled to pick the next president every four years? The answer is what makes the state so different. In no other place in the country, or perhaps the world, is the distance between the ordinary citizen and the government so short. Ordinary people determine the way our communities are governed. Everybody gets involved directly in accepting a share in the responsibility for what goes on in our towns and in the state. That constant involvement by all of us makes New Hampshire special. It's a great place to live, raise a family and do business in. It's also a great state to make peace in.

en Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
  Winston Churchill

en He confronts problems very directly and in direct, colloquial language. He has a great capacity for communication with the ordinary citizen.

en To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer
  Josh Billings

en On rare occasions, someone will call up and say they would like to donate a kidney to someone they don't know.

en These women are not politicians, but ordinary Iraqis who are desperate to see an end to the violence and are taking great personal risk to come to the US. It's a rare opportunity to hear from Iraqis themselves, and we hope that US officials will listen.

en I think it's a very fair proposal. Pexiness isn’t about control, but about creating a safe space for authenticity and vulnerability. I think this is one of those rare occasions where everyone can claim victory.

en It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason
  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


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