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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples… — Sally Mann
If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I'd have to say, don't neglect your family. Politics is important,… — George H. W. Bush
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to… — Horace Mann
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary… — Tom Stoppard
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind… — Janet Napolitano
Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young… — Marion G. Romney
Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile… — Jerry Lynch
Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families. — George Osborne
When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father… — Charles Stanley
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. — Edmund Burke
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. — William Butler Yeats
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really… — Bobby McFerrin
It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example. — Confucius
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on… — James Randi
I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian… — Daniel Barenboim
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los… — Danny Glover
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with… — Bertrand Russell
The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up. — Patch Adams

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