Instance Quotes
916 quotes by 711 authors
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So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact…
— Robert Lanza
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I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that…
— Hugh Laurie
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My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to…
— Denis Leary
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by…
— James Madison
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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
— James Madison
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For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from…
— Miriam Makeba
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in…
— Jon Meacham
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
— Maria Mitchell
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The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my…
— George Muller
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could…
— Al Pacino
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The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the…
— Mike Pence
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I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.
— Chris Pratt
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It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because…
— Dennis Quaid
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So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to…
— Mitt Romney
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Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If…
— Marco Rubio
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Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words.…
— Salman Rushdie
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used…
— Salman Rushdie
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
— Salman Rushdie
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