Examples Quotes

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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
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
Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad". — William C. Brown
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity… — Maximus the Confessor
I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. — Brit Marling
There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for… — Ian MacKaye
Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience. — Muhammad Abduh
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely… — Paul Davies
A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts of a bigger… — Swami Vivekananda
The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers,… — Tim Foley
The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . .… — Peter McWilliams
San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't… — Harvey Milk
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. — William Morris Hunt
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of… — Theodore Dalrymple
Parents should be the most important examples for their children. — Christy Turlington
The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the… — Roger Scruton
It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple… — Marcus Buckingham
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific… — Michael Behe

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