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Take me as an example. I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on… — Warren Buffett
Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are,… — Neymar
A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to… — Woody Allen
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous… — Ward Churchill
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not… — Eduardo Souto de Moura
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting… — Umberto Eco
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of… — Sam Vaknin
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that… — David Hilbert
Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or… — Joseph J. Romm
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide… — Samuel Johnson
Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to… — Brenda Ueland
Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people… — John Blacking
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an… — Stephen Jay Gould
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman… — Peter Singer
I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head [he walked into a street sign… — Kanye West
Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--. But His energy and His love and… — Kanye West
This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their… — H. L. Mencken

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