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“Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?”

People Thinking Knows Wells Has Beens Might White Cases Taken Dangerous Example Drink Red Blue Embrace Flags Towers Exclusive Yelling Oxford Ivory Ivory Tower Red White And Blue

Author:Lynne Truss

“Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.”

Thinking Littles Sometimes Seems Natural Example Activity Creatures South Males Testing Pacific Slap Shaving Mating Beetles Aqua

Book:The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

Source: The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

“Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.”

People Has Beens Two Seems Government Individual Left Force Taken Example Beats Threat Two Things Thrown Goods Cheese Stolen Peasants Delighted Fees Surplus Middlemen Deadly Force

Author:L. Neil Smith

“If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.”

Ifs Found Religious Example Humanism Destroyed Opposition Destructive Religious Faith Anti Religious Place And Time

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action.”

Needs Mean Action Law Example Planets Ocean Scientist Absolutes International Classic Our Planet Precaution Save The Planet

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.”

Humans Water Sea Subjects Example Wind Affair Fluctuation

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.”

People Ifs Want Shows Spiritual Steps Progress Example Inspire Raises Preaching Threatening Ladders Indication Deductions Conspiring Spiritual Progress

Author:Ameen Rihani

“Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.”

“Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists.”

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?”

People Example Understood Aspect London Customs Gym

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...”

People Knows Desire Example Delight Senses Usefulness

Author:Aristotle

“Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.”

Interesting Magic Example Creating Metaphor Prose

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.”

Ifs Way Littles Book Different Stories Speak Language Sound Novel Example Sentences Dialogue Cinema Translate

Author:Yann Martel

“I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.”

People Ifs States United Numbers Fiction United States Example Exercise Myth Storytelling

Author:Yann Martel

“For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.”

Way Writing Mother Father Powerful Example Son Regret Absence Most Powerful Facing Death New Mother

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows.”

Littles Made Shows Guy Song Energy Environment Example Huge Band Crowds Clubs Tiny Teeth Kicks Arena Papa Roaches Papa Roach

Author:Tony Palermo

“Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.”

Humans Persons Earth Human Beings Example Prime Warhol Aspergers Amorous Schizoid

Author:Jim Shaw

“John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.”

People Ifs Wells Poor Example Conscience Revenge Myth Theology Obligation Well Being Interpretation Sanctity

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.”

Said Blood Example Cold Killing Innocent Marine Civilians

Author:George W. Bush

“The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.”

People Knows May Country Strong Differences Media Example Huge Birth Dues Construction Misconception Lack Of Knowledge Lithuania

Author:Alante Kavaite

“I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!”

“Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.”

Thinking Trying Believe Made Country I Believe Dark Issues Happened Policy Example Keys Citizens Messages Lays Starting Statements Data Surveillance Mislead Nsa Misled

Author:Ron Wyden

“You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.”

“That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.”

People Should Has Beens Political Sides Example Should Have Decent Republic Plato Astonishing Should Have Been Snobbery Plato S Plato's Republic

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.”

Eye Literature Example Reflection Words Echoes Reflecting

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.”

Ifs Economic Example Models Standards France Predictions Thumbs Economic Models

Author:Robert H. Frank

“A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.”

Mind Humans Heart Body Human Beings Honesty Example Balanced Educator

Author:Jhoon Goo Rhee

“There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.”

People Example Enthusiasm Nurturing Good Examples

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.”

Wells Reality Jobs Nations Difficult Simple Levels Example Simplicity Treated Complexity Suspects Migrate

Author:Oliver DeMille

“A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.”

Thinking Example Poet Fool Great Poet

Book:Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

“We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of the example which these young people are giving by their creative and constructive responses to the challenges which confront our communities and dedication to help those most in need.”

People Needs Giving Helping Young Speak Community Challenges Creative Example Citizens Draws Response Dedication Constructive Our Community Commonwealth Hope For The Future Great Hope

Author:William Weld

“You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.”

World Giving Feels May Children Light Games Born Example This World Glory Shining Permission Glory Of God Child Of God

Author:Marianne Williamson

“You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.”

People Men Two Example Equal Men And Women Definitions Two Things

Author:Anthony Browne

“I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.”

Art Passion Waiting Modern New York Example Foundation Contemporary Los Angeles Museums Contemporary Art Louis Vuitton

Author:Delphine Arnault

“If children really want to learn something, and have the opportunity to learn it in use, they do so even if the teaching is poor. For example many learn difficult video games with no professional teaching at all!”

Ifs Want Children Use Opportunity Games Difficult Poor Teaching Example Video Opportunities To Learn

Author:Seymour Papert

“In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.”

Doe Example Concepts Definitions Memes Illustrating

Book:What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

Source: What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline

“Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.”

Way Heart Force Love Is Influence Example Bears My Heart Let Me Praise Shining Preaching Evident Fullness Catching Sympathetic Amen

Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.”

“In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.”

Should Hate Christ Prayer Perfect Enemy Example Taught Praying Treats Regard Taught Us

Book:The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross

Source: The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross

“I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.”

Want Mean Children Country Care Example Healthy Breathing Obesity Posters Epidemics Take Care Of Yourself

Author:Bernard Hopkins

“The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.”

Giving Important Leader Class Watches Forever Example Important Things Soldier Lectures

Author:Colin Powell

“Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage.”

People Way Want War Lasts Film Too Much Example Intimate Good Examples Intimate Relationships Carnage

Author:Cate Shortland

“I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show in an art gallery I probably wouldn't really make very much sculpture. But I've had the opportunity to show in big spaces, so I want to fill up that space in the same way you might want to fill up a page.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Art Play Shows Bigs Might Able Opportunity Term Space Example Circumstances Pages Sculpture Gallery Art Galleries

Author:David Shrigley

“Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf.”

Example Cost Nuclear Disaster Expensive Cleaning Cleaning Up Fukushima

Author:Chris Paine

“I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me.”

Force Community Example Members Resistance Latino Dixie Fiesta

Author:Richard Benjamin

“For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornography don't have full color pictures outside of movie theaters. Let them be in a different district. I'm kidding about pornography, but you get the point.”

People Different Reason Hate Fans Streets Example Color Walking Theater Pornography Movie Theater Great Fans

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“Christians and Jews go after those who have access to raw materials but who prevent access to them. Oil is the best example. The US and its allies are constantly intervening in countries where they don't belong only to defend their prosperity. We aren't fighting because we are greedy and selfish, rather we are fighting for values and morals.”

Country Christian Values Fighting Moral Example Materials Jew Prosperity Oil Access Selfish Allies Greedy Raw Materials Intervening Values And Morals

Author:Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

“My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.”

Years Wells Able Remember Young Memories Generations Happened Example Birth Program My Generation Paramount Remembers Everything Young Generation Quiz

Author:Umberto Eco

“Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists.”

People Knows Wells Has Beens Two Example Thousand Empowerment Tradition Islamic Autonomy Jurists

Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl

“Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research.”

Men Needs Shows Eye Sex Example He Man Research Arousal

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

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