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“The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.”

Source: A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America

“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.”

“I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.”

People Thinking Term Opinion Groups Example Huge Impact Really Great

Author:John Byrne

“I'm very much a lead by example person.”

Persons Example

Author:Alexandra Paul

“It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.”

Way Play Difficult Love You Example Tears Judging Easier Heavy Hello Addict Ceilings Heroin Withdrawing

Author:James Stewart

“The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.”

Shows Simple Example Prose Verses Wordsworth

Author:Lord Byron

“Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.”

Knows May Said Shows Christianity Modern Example Vanity Preacher Ecclesiastes True Christianity

Book:The Sayings of Lord Byron

Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron

“Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.”

Littles Has Beens Art Reason Seems Might Artist Universe Social Modern Example Shapes Chaos Assumption Cosmos Latent Modern Art Social Systems

Author:Kenneth Clark

“Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera.”

Men Problem Technology Struggle Example Photography Machines Overcoming Cameras Photographer Dependent Paradoxical Mechanization

Author:Ernst Haas

“Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.”

Lost Gone Records Written Rocks Example Lessons Flow Sand Over It Instruction Tides

Author:William Ellery Channing

“In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.”

Example Thee Globes Imitation Discharge

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

“Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.”

Men Children Example

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

People Thinking May Made Pain Young Evil Virtue Example Ought Reconcile Sparta Bodily Pain

Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...

“There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.”

Long Real Reason Might Certain Known Principles Example Objects Elements Research Assuming Reason Why No Reason Permit Being Real Hypothesis Avoided Procedures Scientific Research

Author:David Bohm

“It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.”

People Knows World Facts Suffering Faith Religious Example Tragedy Shining Arena Spectators Skeptic Sufferers Unconquerable

Author:James Stewart

“My number one goal was to always have to opportunity to have an international business of some sort, opening in Paris, opening in Tokyo, opening in Singapore for example, that was always my dream, and so it came about.”

Dream Opportunity Goal Numbers Example International Opening Paris Singapore Tokyo International Business

Author:David Myers

“I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.”

Way Certain Views Behinds Example Painting Cold Built Filled Paint Glasses Boxes Point Of View Controlled Hiding Suggestions Clinicals

Author:Oliver Jeffers

“People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.”

People Believe Heaven Teach Hell Example Satisfaction Believer Heaven And Hell

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Enjoy life and change things. And maybe by giving examples of people who achieve things, who succeed, who are proactive and being happy and facing their own destinies, rather than accepting what the world throws at at them - we should fight! Not like street fighting, but the little act of defiance every day.”

People World Giving Should Littles Fighting Enjoy Accepting Destiny Streets Achieve Example Succeed Enjoy Life Defiance Proactive Life And Change

Author:Haifaa al-Mansour

“Will [Smith] is not like preachy. He's more like lead by example. There's two ways to approach Will. You can follow or you can watch and learn, and I just kind of watched him and learned how he dealt with people, how he dealt with life and how he approaches his own work.”

People Way Kind Two Watches Example Approach Two Ways

Author:Michael Ealy

“I've actually heard people protesting furiously about straight male costume people as well. It's not universal and there are examples that break the mould all over the place. In my experience, it's more prevalent in the UK than in America.”

People Wells America Break Heard Example Universal Males Costumes Mould

Author:Colin Firth

“The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology... people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.”

People Trying Doe Has Beens States Use Shows Film Form White Results Example Prepared Ideology Fascism Repression Straws Indoctrination Humiliated Ribbons

Author:Michael Haneke

“The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present that you're given by having a child like that in your film... more so than in the case of actors because, for example, if you ask them to play a lion, they don't then play a lion, they actually are a lion. So, a gifted child is something very special. On the other hand, if a child has no gifts in that way it's absolutely hopeless and there's nothing you can do!”

Ifs Way Children Play Hands Kids Film Actors Asks Given Can Do Cases Wonderful Special Example Patient Hopeless Lions Gifted Gifted Children

Author:Michael Haneke

“Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.”

People Looks Kind Two Stories Successful Pieces Example Difficulty Response Studios Eight Lowest Slow Motion Lowest Point

Author:David Fincher

“I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.”

Ifs Looks Doe Happens Form Example Mines Painting Dancing Cinema Sensitive Dancer Sculpting

Author:Philippe Petit

“At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.”

Said Ideas Eye Turns Found Wonderful Middle Example East Architecture Islamic Middle East Traveled Egypt Spain Mosques Cairo Granada

Author:I. M. Pei

“Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that experience. I know that's a slightly heightened example, but it's the same thing. We're bumpkins, so we can make bumpkin jokes.”

Knows Example Jokes Comedian Do The Best

Author:Simon Pegg

“I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.”

Thinking Example Athlete Setting Settings Feminine Ballerina Armour Under Armour

Author:Misty Copeland

“I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along.”

Thinking Way Two Character Comedy Influence Example Huge Scene Shots

Author:Emily Blunt

“I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.”

Ideas Film Can Do Example College Accidents Best Things Backwards Exposure

Author:Frank Capra

“Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Facts Novel Example Picks Males Journalist Unconscious Reviews Bias Coverage

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.”

Thinking Use Style Crime Policy Example Scene Messages Instant Appropriate Internals Cop Monologues Narrators Personal Style Adverbs

Author:Charles Stross

“Well, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.”

Way Wells Facts Might Wanted Example Periods Late Best Way Instant Documents

Author:William Eggleston

“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.”

People Way Feels Said Facts Film Decision Views Example Directors Treats Filmmaker Etc Fascinated Deliberate

Author:Chika Anadu

“This is a major step forward in achieving our objective, which is an ally having a democratic Iraq, a country able to sustain itself and defend itself, a country that will be an ally in the war on terror and a country which will set such a powerful example to others in the region.”

War Country Able Powerful Steps Achieve Example Majors Democratic Iraq Terror Objectives Regions Allies War On Terror Steps Forward

Author:Tucker Carlson

“My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.”

Kind Simple Example Following Complexity Interaction

Author:David Byrne

“What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.”

Has Beens Moments Missing Information Example Possibility Depth Wide Digital Packages Printed Digital Music

Author:David Byrne

“I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.”

Want Long Ideas Problem Inspiration Pay Example Long Time Independent Conviction Empowering No Problem Really Long

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.”

Thinking Want Community Example Projects Program Superiors Guarantees License Guarantees That

Author:Linus Torvalds

“An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it completely. For example, only the driver can tell you why he abruptly takes his foot off the gas pedal at a certain point. The data doesn't necessarily tell the engineer whether the driver made a mistake at that point or the car was acting up. The information the driver provides often helps determine the direction of development.”

Needs Looks Made Helping Certain Acting Mistake Feet Car Information Example Development Determine Data Gas Drivers Engineers Made A Mistake Translators Pedals Cockpit

Author:Michael Schumacher

“Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.”

Trying Passion Christ Example Athlete

Author:Torii Hunter

“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.”

People Trying Life Is Virtue Study Century Example Regret Honor Ideals Convinced Greek Classic Latin Historic Grounding

Author:David McCullough

“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.”

People Thinking Feels Film Rooms Alive Stage Example Masters Like You Realms Just Being Temperature Hitchcock Sensational

Author:Tilda Swinton

“To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.”

Years Doe Done Together Five Honest Example Producers Being Honest Five Years Potters Working Life Orlando

Author:Tilda Swinton

“You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.”

Play Character Stories Film Existence Example Scene Productions Dialogue Good Story Distinctive Hilarity

Author:John Leguizamo

“Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.”

Path Example Genius Species Destined Outstanding Markers

Author:Fred Hoyle

“These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.”

Language Example Limits Simplicity Appearance Contrary National Language

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.”

Justice Example Divine Atheist Love Wisdom

Author:Ludwig Feuerbach

“I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.”

Shows Lost Difficult Compassion Example Circumstances Mercy

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Mean Belief Example Sake Electric Monk Futility Eloquent

Author:Richard Dawkins

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