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“Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!”

Long Difficult Cities Company Example Television Long Time Locals Versions Variety Long Time Ago Programmes Divergent Newcastle Subtitles

Author:Larry Trask

“A Christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a Christian; and truth is truth however learned. But while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the Christian from that which they seem to the non-Christian; and that is why a truly Christian education is possible only when Christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.”

Different Seems School Christian Purpose Girl Boys Teacher Example Truth Is Mathematics Conviction Spheres Curriculum Christian Education

Book:What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses

Source: What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses

“I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.”

Thinking Believe Stills Mother Belief Achieve Example Flying Planes Crash

Author:Joe Bastianich

“...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.”

“Recently, there's been a trend in America that I find very disturbing... rewarding immoral and illegal behavior...For example, we now give free needles to junkies, which seems to me to be only a step away from giving condoms to rapists.”

Giving Seems America Steps Example Behavior Illegal Trends Immoral Disturbing Needles Junkie Condom

Author:Bill Maher

“I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.”

Ideas Different Hard Would Be Kids Used Night Found Speak Parent Realizing Example Bed Ten Tools Letters Faults Dumb All Night Resent Alphabet Speak English Up All Night Letters Of The Alphabet

Author:Paul Reiser

“I like when people wear a WWJD bracelet, because it's like an example of the first thing Jesus wouldn't do, probably.”

People Firsts Jesus Example Bracelet

Author:Demetri Martin

“If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Example Strange Encounters Doing You

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“In any relationship there are certain doors that should never be opened. The bathroom door, for example.”

Should Certain Doors Example Bathroom

Author:Richard Jeni

“David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)”

Trying Important Play Running Goal Example Fields Supreme Hardest Score Impress Scotland Beckham Supreme Confidence

Author:Alex Ferguson

“A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.”

Perfect Example Urges Republic Respectability Drapes Togas

Author:John Ashbery

“Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?”

Home Found Worst Example Built Architecture Enterprise Housing Jerry Private Enterprise

Author:Hugh Dalton

“The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said it? Donald Trump or not Donald Trump? For example, quote, "I mean you can prove you are a Christian. You can`t prove it, then you err on the side of caution." That was not Donald Trump. It was this guy, who strongly denounced Trump`s proposed Muslim ban but supports a religious test for refugees.”

Mean Said Christian Guy Sides Religious Support Example Fields Trump Republican Prove Tests Clinton Campaigns Clever Presidential Online Refugee This Guy Caution Bans Prove It Quiz

Author:Chris Hayes

“In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.”

Easy Difficult Sound Challenges Too Much Example Balance Findings Instruments Contemporary Violin Expressive Recorders Contemporary Music

Author:Michala Petri

“The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.”

Ends Jobs Perfect Example Starting Users Ipods Methodology

Author:John Sculley

“I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.”

Thinking Want Stars Responsibility Special Example Screens Awful Appeals These Days Smoking Movie Star Stop Smoking

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.”

Thinking Political House Left White Levels Example Bills Clinton White House Posterity Paragraph

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or at least could be made on Earth with enough pressure. Nothing else does this.”

Doe Made Enough Earth Form Found Example Pressure Ice Comets Asteroids

Author:Ira Flatow

“Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of water in different concentrations. For example, one can mimic the concentration of the ocean, or one can make it even saltier.”

Way Different Home Water Can Do Simple Example Amount Ocean Add Experiments Ice Remarkable Concentration Salt

Author:Ira Flatow

“I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call it what it really is, which is a mini-series. "24" is a really good example, in that there was a definitive beginning, middle and end for the first season. They had a slightly different format than we have, but the second season just retained Jack Bauer and a few other players, with the same basic format and idea, but it was a completely different show.”

Feels Firsts Ideas Different Ends Shows Wise Player Middle Example Seasons Series Format Good Examples Nbc Beginning Middle And End

Author:Remi Aubuchon

“Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.”

Thinking Culture Father Games Watches Example Japan Watch Movie

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.”

Thinking Want Feels Art Interesting Emotion Pieces Example Art Is Contemporary Our Time Mainstream Really Interesting

Author:Luis Gonzalez

“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.”

“Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!”

Ifs Knows Mind Doe Kids Stars My Own Rooms Example Dad Standing Miles Going Out Standing There Nicole

Author:Lionel Richie

“The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference; and that this segment which the frame frames is an example of nature-as-representation, nature-as-sign.”

Reality Differences Cutting Example Representation

Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths

“Japan is the perfect example of make plans, and watch God laugh.”

Perfect Watches Laughing Plans Example Japan

Author:Christopher Titus

“I have a friend who swears by food combinations - have you heard of this nonsense? She's nuts. She's like, 'You know what? You should eat food combinations, and that way you can eat whatever you want. It's just the combinations of how you put the food together.' And then her examples are like, 'You wouldn't want to eat steak and potatoes together, but you could have, like, a lemon rind and raisin skins - not the whole raisin, take the skins and steam them.”

Knows Way Want Should Whole Together Heard Example Like You Skins Combination Nonsense Nuts Swear Potatoes Steam Lemons Steak Raisins

Author:Brian Regan

“A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main reason he got into it is to do what he is doing now: film and television work.”

Reason Film Guy Comedy Example Television Huge Stones Cooks Comedian Stepping Stones Film And Television

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.”

“Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.”

Knows World Firsts Company Example Products Customers Consumers Rice Did You Know Electronics Sony Cookers

Author:Naveen Jain

“It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.”

Knows Years Has Beens Roles Example Masters Periods Photography Oneself Mediums Crafts Serving Devoted Privileged Time Passes

Author:Ralph Gibson

“Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.”

Way Important Problem Body Desire Speak Example Objects Cameras Sexuality Contradiction Representing Women's Bodies

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Walks Streets Example Walking Photograph Horrible Intrusion Garbo

Author:Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

“Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.”

Mean Doe Leader Fronts Example Decree Good Leader Bossy

Book:The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.”

“My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that you really bring his presence, first, into your own family, then, to the next door neighbor, the street you we live in, the town we live in, the country we live, then only, in the whole world, that living example of God's presence.”

World Firsts May Real Country Whole Next Grows Christ Prayer Doors Streets Example Towns Neighbor Whole World Being Real God's Love Carrier God's Presence Next Door Neighbors

Author:Mother Teresa

“Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong."”

Needs Art Made Said Shows Problem Imagination Natural Creative Example Ready Development Patterns Loaded Whistler

Author:Robert Genn

“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”

“Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.”

Thinking Example Poet Amy

Author:Jools Holland

“I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.”

Thinking Stills Growing Up Growing Example Hero Musician Musical Locals This Day

Author:Dave Grohl

“On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?”

Thinking Want Beautiful Example Industry Setting Settings Superficiality Setting An Example

Author:Angelina Jolie

“God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.”

Want Attention Our Lives Example Gains Cat Treats Legs Want Something

Author:Jeff Miller

“I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for example, I am very much impressed with physicist Gerald Schroeder's comments on Genesis 1. That this biblical account might be scientifically accurate raises the possibility that it is revelation.”

Might Sides Example Possibility Accounts Raises Notion Revelations Comment Accurate Biblical Impressed Physicist Enthusiastic Genesis

Author:Antony Flew

“Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.”

“Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.”

Shows Energy Conditions Example Planets Meetings Stuck Where You Are Exhausted Stressful

Author:Byron Katie

“The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.”

Men Example Divine Expected Chiefs Clock Sunday Officers Commanders Commander In Chief Attendance

Author:George Washington

“A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.”

May Running Watches Dog Example Mad Running Away Thieves Splendid

Book:Zen in English literature and oriental classics

Source: Zen in English literature and oriental classics

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

Source: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals

“... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.”

Source: Spiritual Warfare Strategy: Confronting Spiritual Powers

“It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don't show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists.”

World Different Real Shows Turns Situation Air Effects Example Happenings Warm Surface Proof Observation Faster Atmosphere Global Warming Regions Hypothesis Measurement Tricky Theorists Co2

Author:Nigel Calder

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