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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. — Hosea Ballou
Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule. — Edmund Spenser
Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. — George Washington
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. — Samuel Rogers
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. — Wendell Phillips
Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves. — Josh Billings
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. — Robert Benchley
One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful,… — Mark Victor Hansen
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We… — William Hazlitt
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Walter Houser Brattain
To follow the Savior's example, each one of us must look around and reach out to the sheep who are facing the same circumstances and… — Ulisses Soares
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example. — Brian Oldfield
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. — Benny Hinn
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said… — Alan Cooper
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of… — Tom L. Johnson
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which… — Gregor Mendel
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,… — William Buckland
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has… — Arthur Compton

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