Instance Quotes

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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of… — David Suzuki
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section… — Cole Younger
True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity;… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These… — Richard Moss
One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones.… — Marilyn Meberg
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases… — Bill McKibben
The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have… — Joseph Stiglitz
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I… — Henry Ward Beecher
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural… — Stephanie Mills
I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and… — Oliver Goldsmith
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances.… — Christine Lagarde
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances,… — Laurence Sterne
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for… — Vincent Van Gogh
The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as… — Thomas Sowell
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things… — John Lukacs
Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance… — Sathya Sai Baba

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