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“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Past Humanity Given Justice Dark Race Example Advantage Painful Contrary Treated Unfortunate Prosperous

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.”

People Feels Has Beens Done Moments America Speak Responsibility Example Adventure Iraq Bridges Glorious Speak The Truth Builder

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.”

Mean Has Beens Example Musician Died Brown Great Music Great Musician

Author:Sonny Rollins

“There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.”

Wells Doe Has Beens Made Beautiful Speak Quality Example Available Brilliant Quantity Good Examples Beautiful Music

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.”

Knows Men Years Doe Has Beens Sometimes Hands Past Beautiful Young Guy Pay Attention Wonderful Example Hero Pay Attention Good Man That Guy My Hero Wonderful Life Beautiful Family

Author:Dave Grohl

“When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall.”

Looks Has Beens Country Community Cities Example Transformation Police Guidance Partnership Consent Decree

Author:Ronnie Dunn

“The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.”

Mind Has Beens Example Fine Honor Mets Noble Honour Delicate Refined Good Examples

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.”

“When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.”

World Has Beens Made Running Used Race Seeing Havens Example Errors Accidents Champion Racing Weekend Nevertheless Traps Circuits Horrific World Champions Gravel Schumacher

Author:Jackie Stewart

“It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.”

Way Years Long Has Beens Might Remember Term Millions Technology Environment Example Planets Civilization Bigger Assuming Leaving Global Warming Long Way Footprint Advanced Civilization

Author:Paul Davies

“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.”

“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”

Source: Education and the Social Order

“Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.”

Men Should Has Beens Done Interesting Written Subjects Talent Example Accepted Chosen Spite Setups Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Trying Has Beens Done Realizing Results Leader Example Productive Followers True Leader

Author:John Wooden

“There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.”

People Has Beens Faces Next Example Tough Come Up Get Up Pushing Next Day

Author:Ann Romney

“Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.”

“I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.”

Years Has Beens Made Country States Certain Millions Progress Example Jew Trials Setting Settings Propaganda Palestine Martyr Anti Semitism Foreign Countries Extermination Madagascar

Author:Julius Streicher

“The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd.”

Men Has Beens Whole Sex Blood Example Murder Piety Isle Renown

Author:William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.”

People Writing Firsts Mean Has Beens Loses Influence Example Politician Destruction Theme Domain Utopian Apolitical Public Domain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."”

Has Beens Example Industry Protect Trade Corporate Rejected Restraint Free Trade Prerogative Designation Ascendancy Infringement

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.”

Has Beens Example Empowerment Committed Gender Priorities Secretary Gender Equality Top Priorities

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.”

“These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.”

Trying Years Mean Has Beens Said Important Lasts Guy Winning Sports Example Losing Important Things Nba Keep Trying

Author:Jerry Sloan

“In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.”

Ifs Men Children Has Beens Soul Winning Forever Wise Example Flow Streams Godly Godly Life

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.”

“Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.”

May Has Beens Fate Example Bears Honor Lucky Training Educated Uprightness

Book:Pendennis

Source: Pendennis

“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.”

“I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.”

Has Beens Home Able Example Accomplish Dinner Flying Airplane Back Home Exhibitions

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances, I shall not be vanquished, but will try to be happy. Life is not easy for any of us. But it is a continual challenge, and it is up to us to be cheerful - and to be strong, so that those who depend on us may draw strength from our example.”

Trying May Has Beens Philosophy Life Is Strong Easy Challenges Events Example Depends Circumstances Draws Decided Overcoming Happy Life Cheerful Life Is Not Easy Trying To Be Happy

Author:Rose Kennedy

“Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.”

People Ifs Way Want Has Beens Hands Government Used Powerful Hell Wonderful Example Kings Weapons What You Want Priests Go To Hell Powerful Weapons

Author:Richard Dawkins

“My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.”

Has Beens Moving Names Subjects Example Son Calling My Family Wings Threat My Son Blogs Right Wing

Author:Julian Assange

“If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Example Politician Should Have Ceo Should Have Been Shortstops Cal Ripken

Author:Don Yaeger

“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”

Has Beens Courses Education Steps Cases Progress Example Organization Universal Paid Credit Technique Backwards Notable Aeroplanes Wireless Universal Education Debit

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.”

Ifs Has Beens Views Impossible Subjects Example Negative Direct Roots Ill Point Of View Mysterious Squares Imaginary Units Obscurity Magnitude Adapted Inverse Square Roots

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.”

Has Beens Humor Political Life Is Evil Politics Lines Known Our Lives Example Politician Political History

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.”

“Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.”

Way Has Beens States United Pay United States Example Taxes Including Extremes Wealthy Elsewhere Greece

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.”

Has Beens Art Philosophy Might Example Priests Might Have Been Poignant Traders Art Music

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“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

“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

“Some of the big philosophical problems have been solved by science, at least to a 1st approximation. Examples: the problems of matter, and mind. Only philosophical reactionaries, like Noam Chomsky, claim that they are and will remain mysteries.”

Mind Has Beens Matter Problem Bigs Mystery Example Claims Philosophical Reactionaries Approximation

Author:Mario Bunge

“We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.”

“Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.”

“Gujarat's e-governance projects have been recognized in the country and abroad. To give a few examples- Gujarat has the largest Wide Area Network in the Asia Pacific. It is the first State to provide broadband connectivity in all schools and villages. It makes maximum use of video-conferencing including trial of the prisoners. Gujarat's ICT based Grievance Redressal System called SWAGAT has got the United Nation's Public Service Award. In addition, it has received eleven national awards for our various e-services.”

“Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.”

Thinking Men Way May Has Beens Running Imagination Known Opinion Impossible Example Divine Argument Invention Streams Be A Man Forming Opinions

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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