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“Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.”

Stills Country Use Past Term Example Involved Conversation Gun Forgotten Engaged Appropriate

Author:Stephen Daldry

“There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.”

Ifs World America Example Empathy Intelligent Size Appropriate Magnanimity

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs, and the brain built of neurons in the only example we know - may evolve frequently. But if only one origin of life in a million ever leads to consciousness, then Martian bacteria most emphatically do not imply Little Green Men.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“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

“For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.”

Ifs Desire Asks Waiting Can Do Morning Example Stores Weather Paris Appropriate Polite Vulgar Transactions Salesperson

Book:Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel

Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel

“In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed”

Thinking Should Made Important Seems Purpose Jesus Special Figures Example Humour Regard Impact Lifetime Appropriate Tribes Commentators

Book:Jesus, the Man who lives

Source: Jesus, the Man who lives

“You should have a certain way of dressing based on how you feel. It's appropriate for you. I think Robert Rabensteiner's a perfect example of that - he just always looks so chic.”

Thinking Way Feels Should Looks Certain Perfect Example Should Have Appropriate Dressings How You Feel Chic

Author:Tommy Ton