Best Exemplary Quotes
62 Exemplary quotes by 59 unique authors
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In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt),…
— June Jordan
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and…
— Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,…
— Mao Zedong
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Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so…
— Mary Kay Ash
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A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.
— Martin E. Marty
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The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in…
— Mao Zedong
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Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence
— Tara Fela-Durotoye
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The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as…
— Max Weber
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Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature;…
— David B. Haight
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One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community,…
— John W. Gardner
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
— Martin Amis
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I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in…
— Jennifer Garner
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
— Carl Hiaasen
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Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job…
— Francois Hollande
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Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as…
— John Corvino
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Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith…
— Leon Wieseltier
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What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in…
— Ratan Tata
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By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions…
— Geoff Mulgan
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I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people…
— John Irving
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
— Jane Austen
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The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power…
— David O. McKay
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Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the…
— C.D. Wright
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Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws…
— Ben Okri
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There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power…
— Alain de Botton
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