Instance Quotes

916 quotes by 711 authors

The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare:… — Jack Dorsey
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. — Marvin Minsky
If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first… — David Trumble
God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play… — Kurt Masur
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there… — James Boswell
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith… — Mahatma Gandhi
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is… — Owen Barfield
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. — Mark Twain
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his… — Mark Twain
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. — Aristotle
Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought… — Langston Hughes
Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else. — William Hazlitt
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead
To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get… — P.J. O'Rourke
Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is… — P.J. O'Rourke
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… — Walt Whitman

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