For Example Quotes
365 quotes by 328 authors
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It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
— Joan Didion
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I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
— Eric Schmidt
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I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my…
— Tom Ford
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Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With…
— Murray Rothbard
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If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for…
— Zac Goldsmith
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Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping…
— Bob Diamond
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Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half…
— Tom Yawkey
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Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or…
— Nick Woodman
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For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution,…
— Eduardo Paes
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging…
— Martin Jacques
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Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been…
— Martin Jacques
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It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in…
— Martin Jacques
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Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for…
— Martin Jacques
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In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that…
— Simon Schama
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The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods…
— Seth Shostak
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Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was…
— Noam Chomsky
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