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Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's… — Leif Enger
Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is… — Aravind Adiga
How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his… — Jonah Lehrer
As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize. — Nalini Singh
If I ever fall in love again, I would like it if it were a slightly cold guy. Someone who won't constantly mind about my… — Ai Yazawa
God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Did they look like anyone we know? For exampleâ€¦ a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless,… — Alan Watts
I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think… — Taylor Swift
I try to follow his example, not to imitate him. — George Bernard Shaw
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another… — Osamu Dazai
There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We… — Oliver Sacks
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead â€“ a dead parent, for example â€“ can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the… — Jacques Derrida
Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have… — Julian Barnes
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing… — Christopher Hitchens
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central… — Edward Abbey
Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individualâ€™s world by finding out at least one thing that… — Deepak Chopra
a man is no example for a woman. Itâ€™s a different thing. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in… — Elwyn Brooks White
Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say… — Marcus Buckingham

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