Instance Quotes

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A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of… — Thomas Jefferson
You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never… — Olivia Wilde
As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died… — G. H. Hardy
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than… — Henry David Thoreau
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can… — Matt Mullenweg
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his… — Michael Heizer
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they… — Sugata Mitra
I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I… — Janine di Giovanni
The issue is not to ask your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what the customer is going to want in… — Jay S. Walker
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially… — Nathan Wolfe
In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that… — Stieg Larsson
I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the… — Edmund Hillary
Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work. — Douglas Kirkland
Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be… — Ryan Holmes
I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater… — Jonathan Glazer
My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were… — Nick Jonas
Many of the Prego sauces - whether cheesy, chunky or light - have one feature in common: The largest ingredient, after tomatoes, is sugar. A… — Michael Moss
I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That… — Gretchen Rubin
A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel… — Gretchen Rubin

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