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It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example. — Don Meyer
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously. — Dennis Rodman
May we ever watch over one another, assisting in times of need. Let us not be critical and judgmental, but let us be tolerant, ever… — Thomas S. Monson
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men… — Alfred Adler
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds… — James Clerk Maxwell
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that… — George Wald
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into. — Michel de Montaigne
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many… — Michio Kaku
First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin… — Dave Barry
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who… — Joshua Chamberlain
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over — Macklemore
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.… — Theodore Levitt

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