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It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of…

— Drew Brees

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…

— Michel Foucault

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a…

— Gregory Bateson

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that…

— Michael Beschloss

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct…

— George Washington

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature…

— Henry David Thoreau

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the…

— Agatha Christie

For instance, [Adolf Hitler] would never have spent the night at the Widenmayerstraße apartment. He visited it before we moved the furniture…

— Gretl Braun

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe…

— Jonathan Swift

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation.

— Albert Hofmann

If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high…

— Kevin Maney

I remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to…

— Norah Jones

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very…

— John Abizaid

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

— Louise Rennison

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down…

— Alan Bennett

Instead of yelling and spanking, which dont work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things…

— Patricia Richardson

[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although…

— Francis Bacon

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed…

— Gerhard Richter

What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from…

— George MacDonald

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

— Tony Curtis

I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are…

— Wolfgang Paul

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives…

— Kenneth Branagh