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Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to… — Cory Snyder
For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series. — Frank Bruno
Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage… — Nigel Mansell
I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care. — Carmen Policy
Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts. — Paulo Coelho
Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our… — Michael Josephson
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased,… — Stephen Covey
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. — Joe DiMaggio
Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional… — Stephen Jay Gould
Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are… — Stephen Jay Gould
The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition… — Hugh Miller
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example,… — Sandy Koufax
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. — Francine Prose
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one… — Charles Darwin
My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics… — Larry Flynt
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from… — Mario Cuomo
Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate… — G. H. Hardy
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic… — Eugene Jarecki
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why?… — Eugene Jarecki
AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a… — Joe Perry

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