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There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,… — Augusto Roa Bastos
There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. — Peter Medawar
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon — Marc Andreessen
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their… — Che Guevara
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was… — Cheikh Anta Diop
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it… — John Searle
There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine… — Roger Penrose
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example… — Sri Aurobindo
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits. — Katherine Anne Porter
Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its… — Jeffrey St. Clair
With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of… — Jonathan Ive
French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the… — David Graddol
It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport. — Calvin Coolidge
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. — James A. Garfield
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to… — Michael Behe
But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example. — Gerry Adams
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. — Niklaus Wirth
The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as oneâ€™s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and… — Phillip Lopate
I hope I was a good example of women's tennis. — Victoria Azarenka

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