Example Quotes
2828 quotes by 2145 authors
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Here’s a current example of the challenge we face: At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and…
— Jaron Lanier
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Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path…
— James Nesbitt
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Everyone fixes up their face if it’s not ideal, you know? That’s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have…
— Valeria Lukyanova
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I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example,…
— Jez Butterworth
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Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if…
— Sepp Blatter
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A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
— Peter Drucker
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Young heads take example of the ancient
— Elizabeth I
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While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to…
— Joseph Epstein
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Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable need to hunt…
— Virginia McKenna
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical…
— Freeman Dyson
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New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City,…
— David Duke
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This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to…
— Camille Paglia
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Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we…
— Brian Williams
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The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with…
— Michael Scheuer
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The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.
— Ronald Reagan
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The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have…
— Thomas Sowell
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How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find…
— William Schutz
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A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a…
— Yi-Fu Tuan
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Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse.…
— Marcus Aurelius
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