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“Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.”

“Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.”

People World Wells Whole Shows Together America Law Freedom Compassion Liberty Sacrifice Crime Example Elements Opposites Fundamentals Consistent Heritage Temper Restraint Abiding

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.”

“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.”

People Example Vain Excellent Modest

Author:Augustus Hare

“My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."”

“Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function.”

Way Giving Important Science Certain Names Special Example Function Mathematics Property Convenient

Author:Richard Askey

“In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.”

Science Given Example Truth Is Mathematics Mathematical Indifferent Propositions Objectivity

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.”

People Hard Shows Cases Struggle Example Cold Aspect Medical Episodes Deaf Storyline Deafness Implants Cold Case

Author:Sean Berdy

“Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.”

“Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”

Christian Values Religious Example Bigotry Classroom Hostility Confined Religious Values

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.”

Christian America Values Religious Decision Gone Example Judging Court Supreme Supreme Court Christian Values

Author:Bruce L. Shelley

“The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.”

Father Causes Example Method Psychiatry Psychiatrist

Author:Karl Kraus

“Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.”

Heart Said Heard Example Please Males Refuse Folly Lawns Great Hearts Grasshoppers

Author:Frances E. Willard

“If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.”

Ifs Giving Wisdom Kids Lasts Family Generations Example Food Health Mom Fit Anxiety Ethics Lifetime Diets Jeans

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?”

Hands Black Imagine Example Starting Chess Cards Dealer Playing Cards

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”

Knows Men Stills Young Fall Girl Marriage Example Youth Falling In Love Young Man Classic Kicks Folly Hats Conventions Expecting Delightful Departure Chorus Conventionality Hats Off

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”

“If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.”

Ifs Children Eye Desire Nations Community Cities Seeing Example Adults Endeavor Sensible Humane Kinder Through The Eyes Eyes Of A Child

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.”

Needs Firsts Might Grows Parent Interesting Behinds Accepting Roles Generations Stage Example Connections Complexes Separation Passages Grandparent Drifting Mentoring

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”

People Ifs Writing Looks Important Ends Hands Wanted Earth Literature Existence Struggle Failing Example Months Important Things Hunger Hungry Plenty Behave Paradox Leisure

Author:Stig Dagerman

“The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.”

House Growth Church Perfect Feet Example Mets Office Hotel Holmes Bathtubs Moriarty Old Churches

Author:Morley Safer

“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Wells Looks Light Care Wanted Lying Hope Stars Causes Darkness Tree Crazy Dangerous Example Discovery Eternity Clouds Just One If I Could Bud

Author:Garrett Fort

“In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.”

Men Writing Force Loss Teach Example Taught My Friends Beer Compulsion Drank Indulgence Emperor Philip Constrain

Book:Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523

Source: Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523

“Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.”

Ideas Advice Example Intellectual Paid Property Driven Selling Consulting Intellectual Property Pricing

Author:Chuck Martin

“Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.”

“Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.”

Knows Way I Can Race Modern Example Scientist Pressure Aliens Winner Beast Autobiography Rats Extinction No Money Patents Rat Race

Author:June Goodfield

“I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.”

Looks Country Age Wish Term Example Aging Stuck Maturity Braces Going For It

Author:Cyra McFadden

“I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Wanted Individual Levels Cities Dangerous Example Politician Areas Locals Borders Just One Neighborhood Invites Mandates

Author:Sarah Palin

“I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.”

Thinking Kids Example Incredibles

Author:Woody Harrelson

“I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.”

Littles Sleep Example Elements Counting Here And There Eyelashes Sleeping Beauty

Author:Michael Stipe

“The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to Israel, it's not because they were legal, it's not because somehow that was authorized under international law; it was because there was insufficient intelligence or capacity to stop those shipments.”

Ifs Looks Real Problem Law Example Capacity Threat International Israel Graves Missiles Real Problems Insufficient International Law Hezbollah

Author:Barack Obama

“Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.”

Ifs Children School Issues New York Example Disease Our Children Ill Your Children Vaccines Contagious Public Health Vaccinations Health Issues Influenza Schoolmates

Author:Michael Specter

“My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.”

Reading Waiting Fiction Wife Example Majors And Love University Currents My Wife Actresses English Major Northwestern Goldfinches Northwestern University

Author:Nick Offerman

“The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism.”

“North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.”

Said Born Example Birth Singing Bird Miraculous Korea North Korea Korean Kim Kim Il Sung

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.”

Ifs Knows Feels Sometimes Moments Father Perfect Secret Clear Example Particular Guilty Right Thing Perfect Father

Author:Antonio Banderas

“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.”

“Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.”

World Wells Country Courses Common Example Television Communication Internet Draws Around The World Airline Transportation Transport Rail Mining

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.”

“The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Life Is Break Example Attractive Intimate Irrelevant Arena Attractive Man

Author:Zadie Smith

“What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.”

Ifs Should Mean Different Attitude Example Holy Kicks Different Attitude

Author:Alan Watts

“People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek shelter from the rain, I gaze upon snails. These are things which you often do when you are a child aren't they? I have a very similar sensibility to that.”

People Children Eye Example Rain Staring Sugar Shelter Sensibility Gathering Ants Snail

Author:Rinko Kawauchi

“Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design.”

Important America Wish Cities Example Design Architecture Landscape Designer Destination Site Historic Buffalo Landscape Architecture

Author:Richard Moe

“John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.”

Running Choices Poor Example Ignorance Judgment Affair Mates Mccain Palin Public Affairs

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

“Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.”

Thinking Men Example Bird Flying Chickens Larks

Author:Albert Einstein

“The expression "follow the Brethren" has a broader meaning than some would apply to it. It means not only to agree with the counsel given to the Church by the Brethren, but also to follow their example in appearance and deportment.”

Mean Given Church Example Expression Agree Appearance Brethren

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Make your influence a good one. Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person.”

Ifs World Way Mean Persons Whole Would Be Influence Example Proud Whole World Just One Be Proud

Author:Lindsey Stirling

“The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.”

Giving Wells Asks Answers Example Truth Is Notion Comment Socialist

Author:Barack Obama

“The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.”

Way Should Whole Jesus Example Exception

Author:Carl Jung

“EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.”

Courses Example Source Offers Creating University Profit Platforms Website Harvard Portal Open Source Mit

Author:Anant Agarwal

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