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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in… — Michel de Montaigne
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine. — Michel de Montaigne
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your… — Eric Hoffer
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives.… — Margaret Cho
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood,… — Russell Baker
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting… — Russell Baker
For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't… — Sydney Pollack
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated… — Gary Saul Morson
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky
Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. — Thomas Browne
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything. — Paul Valery
Programming is usually taught by examples. — Niklaus Wirth
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there… — George Orwell
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example. — Ben Jonson
One example is worth a thousand arguments. — William E. Gladstone
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't… — Paula Poundstone
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet,… — Neil Postman

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