Instance Quotes

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Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness,… — Frank Crowninshield
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos. — F. Sionil Jose
The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes. — Seth Shostak
My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance, me… — Shea Hembrey
I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I… — Glenne Headly
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn… — Craig Brown
I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing.… — Frankie Valli
Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks:… — Martin Rees
We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with… — Paul Bloom
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. — Robert Gottlieb
The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur… — Delphine Arnault
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking… — Charles Duhigg
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left,… — Edmund White
Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same… — Jaclyn Smith
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language… — Carl Maria von Weber
It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in… — Otto Wallach
Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce… — James Howard Kunstler
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. — Sun Tzu
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned.… — Kazuo Ishiguro
It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular… — William Lamb Melbourne

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