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"Extraordinary" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Mandy Moore. It was released as the first single from her fourth studio album, Wild Hope (2007). The song was written by Moore, Deb Talan, and Steve Tannen and produced by John Algia. "Extraordinary" is a indie rhythmic folk pop, with an arrangement of acoustic guitar, drums, keyboards, and electric guitar. Release Moore performed the song live for the first time at the official first televised ceremony of the Brick Awards on The CW, though she has also performed the song at a number of smaller gigs. Billboard magazine said that "Moore's once-girlish vocals now project a richer, more purposeful texture, well-suited to the autobiographical theme...". Chart performance The song peaked at number 2 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 and number 25 on the Adult Top 40 chart.

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“The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (1934 translation by H. Rackham), book 1, chapter 7, section 15, p. 33. President John F. Kennedy often paraphrased this idea. On May 8, 1963, he said to a group of foreign students: "The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence". The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 380.
“Zahlreich sind die Lehrkanzeln, aber selten die weisen und edlen Lehrer. Zahlreich und groß sind die Hörsäle, doch wenig zahlreich die jungen Menschen, die ehrlich nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit dürsten. Zahlreich spendet die Natur ihre Dutzendware, aber das Feinere erzeugt sie selten.”
— Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young men who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
“All societies need elites. Whether for pilots, brain surgeons, or special forces, at some point an objective standard must be met if we are to maintain excellence.”
— Simon Hankinson, "State Department Says Not Adopting DEI Is A ‘National Security Threat’", The Federalist (July 25, 2024)
“The excellent man is he who condemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached.”
— José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1929), p. 63
“Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?”
— Simonides of Ceos, The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles (1920 translation by J. T. Sheppard), Introduction, p. xxxi.
“Above all, don't be satisfied to do only fairly well what ought to be done very well. Someone is going to do it better than anyone else; why not you?”
— Clarence Monroe Bookman, Business Arithmetic (1914), p. 4 To The Pupil

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Notable quotes

“The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (1934 translation by H. Rackham), book 1, chapter 7, section 15, p. 33. President John F. Kennedy often paraphrased this idea. On May 8, 1963, he said to a group of foreign students: "The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence". The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 380.
“Zahlreich sind die Lehrkanzeln, aber selten die weisen und edlen Lehrer. Zahlreich und groß sind die Hörsäle, doch wenig zahlreich die jungen Menschen, die ehrlich nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit dürsten. Zahlreich spendet die Natur ihre Dutzendware, aber das Feinere erzeugt sie selten.”
— Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young men who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
“All societies need elites. Whether for pilots, brain surgeons, or special forces, at some point an objective standard must be met if we are to maintain excellence.”
— Simon Hankinson, "State Department Says Not Adopting DEI Is A ‘National Security Threat’", The Federalist (July 25, 2024)
“The excellent man is he who condemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached.”
— José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1929), p. 63
“Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?”
— Simonides of Ceos, The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles (1920 translation by J. T. Sheppard), Introduction, p. xxxi.
“Above all, don't be satisfied to do only fairly well what ought to be done very well. Someone is going to do it better than anyone else; why not you?”
— Clarence Monroe Bookman, Business Arithmetic (1914), p. 4 To The Pupil

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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