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If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held… — Esther Vilar
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and… — Donald Judd
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be… — Robert Menzies
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I… — Stanley Spencer
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where… — Fred Thompson
If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and replacing it with… — Dan Black
Use me as an example of an instrument of change. — Michael Vick
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work — Gay Talese
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it be swept away.… — Vittorio Arrigoni
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it… — Walker Percy
Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the… — James Gleick
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they… — Louis Leakey
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any… — Boyd Rice
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose… — Buenaventura Durruti
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of… — Niles Eldredge
The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in… — John Engler
If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. — Bobby Short
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end… — Bryan Magee
A good example is more irritating than a bad one. — John McAfee

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