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Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great… — Richard J. Foster
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at… — Michel de Montaigne
Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example,… — Julien Temple
The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend.… — David Plotz
I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband. — Rick Nielsen
When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that,… — Ronnie Dunn
Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash… — Steve Kroft
Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by… — Mark Shields
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she… — Horace
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter… — Horace
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of… — Michel de Montaigne
You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really… — George A. Romero
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned. — Jean de la Bruyere
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. — Benjamin Franklin
I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat… — M.C. Escher
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing… — Stephen Jay Gould
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow… — William Shakespeare
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally… — Joseph Addison
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce

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