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“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.”

Knows Men Should Mind Truth Purpose Common Progress Example Moon Disease Seasons Errors Curiosity Determine Curious Chiefs Motive Etc Restless Malady Seasons Change

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Content to follow when we lead the way.”

Way Example

Book:Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Source: Translation of the Iliad of Homer

“A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.”

Years Deals Example Objects Careful Burden Construction Isolated Ingenuity Undesirable

Book:Americans and Others

Source: Americans and Others

“It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.”

Way Written Example Humble Irony Apology

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.”

Mind Body Example Prison Corsets

Author:Isadora Duncan

“I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.”

Knows Important Hard Example Right Now Important Things Things To Do Lunch Recalls Cult Mobile

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.”

Firsts Children Tree Example Instructors Figs Arabian

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.”

Ifs Religion Fire Alive Example

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.”

People Kind Together Certain Fear Community Courage Example Inspire Brave Contagious

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.”

Christ Teach Teaching Honest Example Training Train Being Honest Fraud Efficiency Doing Good Pulpit Tithe Overreaching

Book:Demands of the Age on Colleges

Source: Demands of the Age on Colleges

“Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?”

Source: Locations

“Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.”

People Men Mean Done Whole Use Shows Liberty Crime Example Criminals Punishment Permanent Injury Severe Deprived Death Penalty Amends Restraining

Author:Catherine the Great

“An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.”

Matter Government Religion Perfect Successful Greater Example Importance Aids Separation Purity Alliances Coalitions Guarded Religion And Government

Author:James Madison

“But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.”

Firsts Stills Religion Jesus Figures Example Argument Alternatives Premises Legendary

Author:William Lane Craig

“For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on his fellowmen for which he could not charge them. Insofar as the same kind of ability is required for the one kind of invention as for the other, the existence of patents tends to divert activity to patentable inventions.”

Kind Ability Existence One Thing Example Activity Benefits Economics Invention Inventor Patents Supermarkets

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.”

Thinking Kind Example Acceptable Good Examples

Author:Andrew Greeley

“Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.”

Years Firsts Shows Remember Next Actors Successful Focus Example Tvs Musician Versions Pilots Tape Tv Shows Auditions Demos Famous Musician Famous Actor

Author:Derek Sivers

“Personal matters aren't really any of my business. I don't care who is sleeping with whom for example unless it is somehow affecting an individual's performance in the public arena.”

Matter Care Individual Sleep Example Performances Don't Care I Don't Care Arena Personal Matter

Author:Terry Mosher

“The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.”

Want Wells Art Nations Can Do Vision Policy Example Identity Tradition Universal Nationalism Working It Ambitious Sophisticated Great Work Australian Englishmen Civilised

Author:George Brandis

“Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.”

Years Done Audience Example Produce South Classic Australia Working It Opera Pacific Blockbuster New Work

Author:George Brandis

“I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.”

Example Proud Literacy Pretentious Hmm Proud Of Myself

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.”

Knows Want Trying Kind Children Made Certain Parent Mistake Situation Teach Example Our Children Your Children Be Kind Made A Mistake Be Kind To Others

Author:Eli Manning

“Having three daughters, it is important for me to set a good example and teach them to make decisions that are healthy for your heart no matter what age you are.”

Heart Important Matter Age Three Decision Teach Example Healthy Daughter No Matter What Good Examples Three Daughters

Author:Martina McBride

“That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.”

Thinking World Example Positive Things

Author:Misty Copeland

“I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.”

Want Memories Example Youth Setting Settings Setting An Example

Author:Misty Copeland

“There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.”

Firsts Kind Certain Song Morning Example Listening Blue Miles Flamenco Kind Of Blue

Author:Jon Foreman

“I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Believe Facts Able Reading I Believe Pieces Example Paper Spoken Word

Author:Sarah Kay

“I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.”

World Wells Said Enough Wanted Realizing Company Example This World Smart Letters Down And Comic Comedian Rejection Cartoonist Comic Strips Stand Up Comedian Rejection Letters

Author:Brian Regan

“Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.”

Knows Certain Individual Information Example Blame

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.”

People Thinking Knows Persons I Can Different Process Example Concepts Bottom Categories Autism Learning More Thinking Process

Author:Temple Grandin

“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.”

People Children Light Eye Nations Memories Fiction Example Particular Habit Gay Wine Dancing Profound Obvious Analysis Rooted Polite Geography Great Nations Public Eye Essayists

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.”

Ifs Children Half Example Tables Hungry Cures Elderly

Book:Childhood

Source: Childhood

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.”

Writing Self Forget Example Abandonment Good Examples

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.”

Needs Should Writing Able Religious Consciousness Mystery Example Humble Sooner Or Later

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.”

Example Conversation Details Boring American History Forgettable

Book:People Who Knock on the Door

Source: People Who Knock on the Door

“Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.”

Children Use Example Direct Maxims Intuitive Discernment

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“an imitator is always a poor example.”

Poor Example Imitation Imitator

Author:Marion Davies

“Example is better than precept.”

Learning Teaching Example

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.”

Example Footsteps Predecessors

Author:Martin Van Buren

“Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.”

Knows Different Real Use Artist Answers Rooms Knowing Example Skills Cameras Buttons Editing Lenses Microphones Artisans Real Knowledge Real Artists

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”

“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.”

“But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.”

Humans Soul Ends Home Government Jesus Church Human Beings Teaching Example Development Institutions Sacred Educational Establishment Human Soul

Book:The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw

Source: The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw

“Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.”

Action Example Position Titles

Author:Cory Booker

“Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.”

Mind Book Home Lost Lines Cities Magic Example Pages Intellectual Originals Green Discrimination Owners Copies Bookstores Markers Browsing

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.”

Ifs Enough Government Poor Example Spending Employee Offering Federal Government Assistance Reckless Pension

Author:Devin Nunes

“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”

Happens Mother Roles Wife Special Example Draws Breaths Planning Ritual Womanhood Widows Qualifications Widowhood

Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard

“This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.”

Way Humans Remember Winning Loses Enemy Teach Darkness Our Lives Sacrifice Example Hero Weapons Bigger Ships Faster Drs Right Time Ingenuity Nothing New Don't Lose Hope

Author:Ann Aguirre

“In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.”

United Cities Tree Example Function Financial London Miles Kingdoms Overwhelming Sheer Fabulous Dominance Poisonous Notorious United Kingdom

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

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