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“We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.”

Men Firsts Hands Pain Sex Parent Views Steps Journey Example Models Loyalty Spite Loyal First Steps Be A Man

Author:Augustus Napier

“When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.”

Hands Jesus Christ Example Duty Jesus Christ Labor Privilege

Author:Catharine Beecher

“Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a few words, Confucius teaches us about patience, perseverance, discipline, and hard work. But if you probe further, you will see more layers. Confucius' philosophies have significantly influenced spiritual and social thought. His views bear insight and depth of wisdom. You can apply his teachings in every sphere of life. Confucius' profound teachings are based on humanism.”

Ifs Long Doe Matter Hard Philosophy Spiritual Social Views Teach Teaching Example Hard Work Bears Discipline Profound Depth Perseverance Humanism Insight Spheres Layers Few Words

Author:Confucius

“Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.”

Home Action Belief Example Taught Right Action

Author:Terry Pratchett

“We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.”

Way Want Children Teach Example Treats Our Children Your Children Treat Yourself

Author:Ingrid Weir

“I think Putin has changed, for sure. He has changed over time and he has been emboldened by, whether it's true or not, the perception is that we've pulled back, so people do change and this is an example of that.”

People Thinking Has Beens Change Example Changed Perception Putin

Author:Jeb Bush

“Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?”

Giving Success Political Gone Example Bills Clinton Historian

Author:Lincoln Chafee

“Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.”

Important Government Failing Example Becoming Competition Contracts Monopoly Splitting Suppliers Splitting Up

Author:Margaret Hodge

“Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.”

People Needs Would Be Values Example Accounts Odds Disservice

Author:Thomas R. Pickering

“The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'”

“The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother.”

Children Two Reality Mother Example Degrees Pages Breasts Fewer Feeding Manuals Child Rearing

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.”

People Example Innovation Tails

Author:Aziz Ansari

“No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.”

People Needs Made Young Sleep Saws Example Prepared Mates Adam

Author:Jim Elliot

“Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.”

Want Example Nicknames

Author:Demetri Martin

“I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.”

Knows Should Humans Sides Animal Example Perception Mirrors Display Handsome Symmetry Perception Of Beauty

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.”

People Knows Jesus Christ Church Teach Issues Taken Clear Teaching Example Serious Contemporary Command Curse Bless Relevant Serious Issues Contemporary Life

Author:Dallas Willard

“My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day with a smile on my face. I am among the ranks of millions of people who appreciate the souls of dogs and know they are a gift of pure love and an example of all that is good.”

People Knows Has Beens Soul Reason Faces Millions Dog Example Pure Appreciate My Dog Pure Love Smile On My Face

Author:Jennifer Skiff

“The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.”

Men Speak Enjoy Sound Water Animal Example Bears Rivers Sight Environmental Including Fishes Symbols Dependent Units Insects Ecological Deer Otters Elk

Author:William O. Douglas

“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.”

Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World

“We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When I keep my house warmer than it needs to be, I consume fuel which might help someone else keep warm, or keep a job. When the food I eat is high on the protein chain I contribute to a maldistribution of protein around the world. When I teach my children to be primarily concerned with private gain, I diminish the ranks of public leadership in the rising generation.”

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.”

Source: Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr

“Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.”

Source: Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

“The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.”

“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.”

“We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.”

Knows War Would Be Today Form Order Term Air Achieve Example Ocean Benefits Survival Bases Suicide Environmental Nuclear Pollution Short Term Nuclear War

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.”

“The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like “childbirth fever” claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!”

“My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.”

People Made Fun Perfect Example My Favorite All Time Cheer Cliffs Sitcom

Author:Michael Schur

“It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I don't think for example that the Indians look at [what is right and what is wrong] that way [the Palestinians do]. There are a billion, 200 million people in that part of the world. Why? They suffer from terror. People that do not suffer from it don't understand what I'm talking about, you know?”

People Thinking Knows World Way Looks Suffering Talking Millions Example Terror Billions Palestinian

Author:Shimon Peres

“Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.”

Made Inspiration Film Example Source Directors Profound Endless Impression Teamwork Fascinated Sublime Source Of Inspiration

Author:Giorgio Armani

“What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?”

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Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.”

“Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.”

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Author:Jennifer Connelly

“I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.”

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Author:Rihanna

“You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.”

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Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng

“Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll was first played to a wide audience it was considered the devil's music.”

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Author:John Landis

“I think there's a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what's possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There's so much potential here.”

Thinking Energy Example Wind Amount Resources Really Great Hawaii Renewable Energy Solar Energy Renewable Resources Wind Energy

Author:Jack Johnson

“I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.”

Thinking Way Play Hands Example Products Comfortable Innovation Apples Temples Consumerism Dissatisfaction Advertisers

Author:John Elkington

“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.”

Thinking Heart Care Suffering Dies Poor Rich Subjects Fronts Example Serious Broken Equal Painful Rich Poor

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.”

People Want Giving Home Accepting Audience Talent Example Lists Classic Unexpected Toms

Author:Mark Canton

“We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.”

People Wells Used Three Lost Four Happened Example Skills Meals Buying Breasts Chickens

Author:Michael Pollan

“There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.”

Would Be Space Doubt Example Activity Moon Exciting Missions No Doubt Mars

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.”

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Author:Mark Martin

“Obviously you can look at things however you choose to and I'm not proud of some people in sports, but I don't really look at it as my calling to be out there setting an example. I just try to treat people the way the I want to be treated - with respect and some dignity.”

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Author:Mark Martin

“Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.”

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Author:Mark Martin

“Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.”

Mind Feelings Suffering Example Hatred Angry Forgiving Constant Ill Peace Of Mind Spoil Hinder Unforgiving Ill Feelings

Author:Dalai Lama

“If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.”

Ifs Lost Sides Compassion Practice Special Example Method Violent Destroyed Buddhist Resorts Detachment Love And Compassion Monasteries

Author:Dalai Lama

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