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Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
This has sometimes been paraphrased: "The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 15.
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
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Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Context: It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things — extraordinary, but not confusing. He merely had two bodies which were as integrated as his two hands had been.
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Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I
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Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
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