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Author:Mason Cooley

“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real Lasts Pleasure Modern Havens Honesty Example Ignorance Painting Theory Reader Blame Response Surface Genuine Comic Comic Strips Harshness Real Truth

Author:Chris Ware

“President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.”

Needs Said Happens Jobs President Century Example Skills Training Workers Chinese 21st Century President Bush Korean New Job American Workers New Skills

Author:Jay Leno

“Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.”

People Example Shining Rainbow

Author:Maya Angelou

“I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.”

Thinking Want Needs America Given Example Ducks Dynasty

Author:Kay Robertson

“People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.”

People Feels Social Chance Situation Missing Fronts Example Insecure Humiliation Exhibits Dominance Tease Submissive

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.”

Littles Ability Pay Example Debt Little Faith

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.”

Has Beens Humor Political Life Is Evil Politics Lines Known Our Lives Example Politician Political History

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients.”

Should Important Hard Difficult Example Position Preparation Cooks Ingredients Dishes Cultivation Back Burner

Author:Gina Barreca

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.”

Years Faces Father Difficult Example Dad My Dad Painful Preacher Wipe

Author:William P. Young

“There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.”

Ifs Knows World Kind Speak Voice Example This World Tongue Barbarians If Then

Author:Paul the Apostle

“A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.”

Ifs Men Wells Virtue Example Inspire Vices Fortunate Encounters Role Models

Author:Brendan Behan

“It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.”

World May Done Example Luxury Mischief Avarice Palate Voluptuous

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.”

Men Eye Effects Example Ears Tedious Summary

Author:Seneca the Younger

“We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.”

“America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.”

World America Example

Author:George H. W. Bush

“In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.”

Christian Fiction Clear Example Ought Goodness Following Attractive Propose Employing

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.”

Ifs Facts Together Known Example Theory Development Connected Convinced Contrary Possessed Hypothesis Distribution Exhibits Anatomy Inconsistent Approximation

Author:Thomas Huxley

“As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.”

Ifs Men Littles Animal Brain Example Higher Series Latter Barriers Impossibility Apes Cerebral Rodents

Book:Man's Place in Nature

Source: Man's Place in Nature

“Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.”

Doe Done Action Liberty Example Produce Shame Ill Contagious Good Actions Emulation

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.”

Example Folly Disorder Catching Contagious

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.”

States Law Crime Example Morality Violation

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.”

Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England - Of Public Wrongs

“And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.”

Together Example Bird Bills Following Lad

Author:Josh Billings

“Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.”

Jobs Life Is Example Taught Terrible Suicide Brave Dare Noble Parallels Fear Of Death Truest Taught Us Valiant Valour Afraid Of Life

Book:Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals

Source: Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals

“In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.”

Example Fields Calling Concepts Forests Ecological Analogies Ecosystems Swamps

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.”

Men Giving Mind Energy Teach Study Military Example Affair Relax

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.”

Writing Use Political Mother Force Loses Example Poet Duty Tongue Mother Tongue Physical Force

Author:W. H. Auden

“Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.”

Ifs Men May Doe Play Jobs Individual Differences Work Views Pay Example Depends Taste Labor Workers Point Of View Gardener Manuals Clerks Laborers Cobblers

Author:W. H. Auden

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.”

“America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.”

“The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”

Art Form Novel Example Sake Contact Classic Detectives Yawning

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”

“I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.”

Past Chance Records Example Performances Investing Convinced Expected Superiors Managers Fund Mutual Consistently Worthless Predicting Future Success Mutual Fund Superior Performance

Author:Burton Malkiel

“One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.”

Needs Order Psychology Example Management Profound Various Variation Incomplete

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.”

Ifs Rich Example Tragedy Investment Investing Faster Disagree Typical Get Rich Counselor

Author:Charlie Munger

“Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?”

Law Leadership Example Authority Obedience

Book:Law and Order

Source: Law and Order

“Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.”

Example Skills Investing

Author:Charlie Munger

“Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”

Doe War Dream Religion Natural Moral Crime Example Morality Civilization Ethics Weak Aids Significant Conclusion Our Time Our Dreams Maintaining Warrants Savagery Moral Life

Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.”

People May Example Return Succeed Built Investing Financial Decades Passive Consistently Persist Abnormal Financial Markets Configuration

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.”

Way Has Beens States United Pay United States Example Taxes Including Extremes Wealthy Elsewhere Greece

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.”

Way Example

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.”

Children Father Example Vices Repentance

Book:Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].

Source: Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].

“The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.”

Men Walks Generations Example Source Bravery Brave Enterprise Shade Heroic

Book:Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

“I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.”

People Ifs Persons Play Wanted Moral Millions Pieces Imagine Example Tears Release Shakes Drowning Implications Viruses Format Shake It Up

Author:David Hasselhoff

“It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.”

Needs May Persons Character Shows Young Plans Example Jokes Mere Absurd Affected Representation Ridicule

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.”

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