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“As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.”

Looks War States America Certain United Deals United States Support Example Cold Circles Propaganda Soviet Cold War Ideological Clumsy Soviet Propaganda

Author:Alexander Haig

“Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.”

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Author:Wayne Coyne

“Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.”

Persons Book Sometimes Individual Voice Powerful Numbers Cases Study One Thing Example Narrative Nonfiction Academic Paragraph Anecdotes Clinicals Really Powerful Case Studies

Author:Dave Eggers

“I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.”

Action Used Turns Information Example Insight Active Data Innate

Author:Michael Dell

“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here.”

Years Long Book Ideas Age Earth Ability Example Keys Evolution Paper Mass Originals Fundamentals Rate Nuclear Billions Compare Features Biology Papers Fission Nuclear Fission Speciation

Author:Bill Nye

“Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Important Done Use Eye Courses Can Do Issues Example Masters Exercise Comfortable Tools Cameras Important Things Determine What You Want Crafts Helpful Thematic

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.”

Knows Art Lasts Example Poet Art Is Available Serving

Author:Wendell Berry

“The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.”

People Jobs Poverty Worst Example Entrepreneur Workers Permanent Temporary Farms Farmers Isolated Equity Gardener Shareholders Migrants

Author:Wendell Berry

“I love the fact that Oprah Winfrey comes out number one [most admired women], regardless of who you are, because she has achieved so much in the business world. I think Republicans, for example, when Republican women rate her higher than Hillary Clinton, they obviously don't care that she supported Barack Obama.”

Thinking World Facts Care Numbers Example Higher Republican Who You Are Clinton Rate Don't Care Barack Business World

Author:Michel Martin

“It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman”

Men May Reality Desire Example Ambition Cherish Solitary Madmen Extravagant Semblance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.”

Source: The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star

“Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.”

People Way Choices Process Example Election Communicate Conclusion Bottlenecks Election Process

Author:Gabe Newell

“It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the debate over Elian...I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.”

Looks Individual Moral Modern Example Fellows Debate Emphasis Conservatism

Author:Ramesh Ponnuru

“Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.”

Children Age Law Natural Principles Example Flower Apples Associates Natural Law

Book:The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second

Source: The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second

“My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.”

Has Beens Moving Names Subjects Example Son Calling My Family Wings Threat My Son Blogs Right Wing

Author:Julian Assange

“Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.”

Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

“Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments Im wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.”

Important Simple Numbers Example Important Things Add Fabric Jewelry Garments Keep It Simple

Author:Hilary Rhoda

“Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.”

People Sometimes States Forget Issues Records Example Majors Voting Schemes Conservatism Legislature Borrowing Pension State Legislatures

Author:Leonard Lance

“I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.”

Persons Philosophy Example

Author:Pete Carroll

“I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.”

People Years Ideas Real Matter Difficult Wonderful Media Example Politician Ten Discussion Attractive Museums Collaboration Architect Clients Wonderful Experience Curator

Author:David Chipperfield

“[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.”

Source: One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics)

“I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.”

Thinking Children Mother Example Eating Your Children Disorder Balanced Eating Disorder

Author:Geri Halliwell

“I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.”

Feels Example Setting Settings Good Examples Setting A Good Example

Author:Geri Halliwell

“I think I can help others just by my example.”

Thinking I Can Helping Example Helping Others

Author:Pat Summitt

“The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.”

Ifs Want Years Children Jobs Example College Bases Our Children Permanent Your Children Minimum Minimum Wage

Author:John Raese

“Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.”

People Firsts Desire Wish Example Ten Priorities Secure Commandments Impress You Again Ten Commandments God First Put God First

Author:Dallas Willard

“I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.”

Thinking Form Example Becoming Terrorism Diverse Cyber

Author:Yoshihiko Noda

“That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.”

Giving Example Sentences Superstitions Lingering

Author:Ernest Gowers

“YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.”

Thinking Way Example Models Areas Proven Autonomy Youtube

Author:Salar Kamangar

“Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.”

Thinking Looks Mean Doe Beautiful Successful Rich Example Checks Magazines Make You Happy Being Beautiful

Author:Shawn Achor

“Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'”

Feels Trying Kind Children Reason Remember Fire Example Particular Died Wine Oneself Genuine No Reason Dread Incarnation Recollection Remember You Remembers You Aversion

Author:Aleister Crowley

“There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.”

Kind Jobs Community Middle Example Design Easier Tasks Handle Routine Artificial Intelligence Software Artificial Robots Intelligence Community

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.”

Example Disease Prime Adhd

Author:Leon Eisenberg

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.”

Example Crosses Horse Asking Pigs Plato

Book:Sophie's World

Source: Sophie's World

“If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Example Politician Should Have Ceo Should Have Been Shortstops Cal Ripken

Author:Don Yaeger

“Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.”

Law Mankind Example Historical Anarchy Live Free

Book:The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

“I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.”

Ifs Thinking Writing I Can Ideas Different Might Happens Today Example Tomorrow Radio Mediums Good Ideas Standing Out

Author:Danny Wallace

“Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.”

Source: America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

“Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.”

Wells Art Remember Actors Fun Acting Example Sake Crafts Surviving Glamour

Author:Boman Irani

“I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.”

Long Kids Worry Focus Example Pasta Good Examples

Author:Mia Hamm

“I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.”

Way Careers Example Right Way

Author:Jamie Moyer

“The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.”

Home Age Example Travel Affection Enormous Queens Longevity Victoria

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.”

Atheism Example Positive Atheism Honestly Propose Barbarians

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.”

Firsts Art Poetry Example Genius

Book:The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

Source: The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer

“If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Earth Universe Sound Example Planets Aliens Unusual Solar System

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.”

Men Past Example He Man

Author:Titian

“My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.”

Mother Example Taught

Author:Marie Osmond

“A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest (about the book 'Compassion, Inc.').”

Book Self Social Interest Justice Company Compassion Example Social Justice Brands Corporate Worthwhile Sustainability Initiative Self Interest

Author:Rebecca Aguilar

“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”

Said Done Change Answers Knowledge Heard Example Circumstances Conscience Daring Smallest Indifferent

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays