“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.” PeopleShouldHas BeensPoliticalSidesExampleShould HaveDecentRepublicPlatoAstonishingShould Have BeenSnobberyPlato SPlato's Republic Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“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.” PeopleKnowsWellsHas BeensTwoExampleThousandEmpowermentTraditionIslamicAutonomyJurists Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl
“The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.” ThinkingHas BeensProblemCultureSocialConditionsHavensExampleModelsIndiaCome UpAlternativesEroticRabbitsSocial ProblemsClinicalsJapanese Culture Author:Volkmar Sigusch
“Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories” Has BeensMadeExampleTheoryDramaGayConcernGolfNineTaxationLivelySmallpoxGaudy Book:Prejudices: Third Series Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.” IfsHas BeensMomentsMightAbleFacesPleasureExampleSeriousProudDespairGratefulIntenseSensitivePeculiarHopelessnessDwarfsDwarvesPredicaments Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I had to figure out my own faith. That was something I figured out a while ago when I was 18. But I can always stand on the fact that my dad has been a great example for me. Beyond that, building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.” Has BeensI CanFactsMy OwnCareersFiguresExampleBuildingDadMy DadFiguring Things Author:Anthony Evans
“In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as a Christian with others Christian athletes. That's one of the coolest things about sports ministry. We can share these common experiences with other Christians. Having Lolo as a teammate, for example, has been great.” Has BeensAbleChristianSportsCommonStruggleStudyShareExampleAthleteLakesMinistryTeammateBible StudyPlacidCommon ExperienceLake Placid Author:Elana Meyers
“Non-cooperative approaches, by contrast, almost always involve duplication of effort, since someone working independently must spend time and skills on problems that already have been encountered and overcome by someone else. A technical hitch, for example, is more likely to be solved quickly and imaginatively if scientists (including scientists from different countries) pool their talents rather than compete against one another.” IfsHas BeensDifferentCountryProblemEffortTalentExampleSkillsApproachScientistOvercomingIncludingPoolContrastEnd TimesSpend TimeCooperativesDifferent CountriesDuplication Author:Alfie Kohn
“Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.” PeopleHas BeensSaidCountryHateMillionsTakenPolicyExampleExtremesToleranceImmigrationOur CountryTolerate Author:Thomas Sowell
“Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?” MenHas BeensImpossibleExampleActivityOfficeInstancePostsCompareLatterConcreteFree MarketDeliveryPost Office Author:Leonard Read
“If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea about history. And one of the things I like about Game of Thrones, for example, is just the grit and the authenticity.” IfsThinkingHas BeensIdeasGamesEventsExampleApproachHistoricalSeriesAuthenticityThronesGritHistorical Events Author:John Landgraf
“There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.” Has BeensLastsEconomySuccessfulCenturyExampleTaxesLet MeComplexesRepeatsQuartersHigh Taxes Author:Jonah Goldberg
“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.” IfsWayHumansHas BeensMightRunningFacesDemocracyExampleDevelopmentWestSocialismOccasionsGermanyMight Have BeenHuman FacesWest Germany Author:Stefan Heym
“Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.” YearsHas BeensCareersExampleGreatnessLegendsMentorOver 50 Author:Yolanda Adams
“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.” KnowsYearsHas BeensRolesExampleMastersPeriodsPhotographyOneselfMediumsCraftsServingDevotedPrivilegedTime Passes Author:Ralph Gibson
“We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensDifferentStatesRememberPoliticalArtistCultureUnitedUnited StatesMiddleExampleColorConsciousIncludingInternationalRapEastIslamicDepartmentAgendasRapperMiddle EastSyriaRepresentingAmbassadorsPolitical AgendasAffableConscious Rap Author:Bocafloja
“There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.” Has BeensArtStillsImportantDoneCareFormTermLevelsShareExampleIndustryPaperBenefitsProjectsDollarsClimateExcuseBillionsHealth CarePushingPapersMusic IndustryNo ExcusesIllogicalAdministrative Author:Immortal Technique
“I think it is about individuality so I don't have a sense to tell someone they need a makeover. One example I would give is Mariah Carey. She has been the same for so long but I bet she is thinking, "If it ain't broke then don't fix it." She is dated but I love Mariah for that.” IfsThinkingNeedsGivingLongHas BeensExampleIndividualityBrokeMakeovers Author:Michelle Visage
“I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.” PeopleKnowsGivingHas BeensHelpingLastsLyingStrongExampleCoupleLet MeBottomDecadesHelping People Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Iraqi fighters on the front lines, You courageous officers and soldiers who have been fighting valiantly and efficiently - you have restored the glories of your great Iraq. You have proved that you are the true descendants of those great fighters throughout the ages. You have given the most remarkable example of Arab military power, of which the Arab nation is in need today and tomorrow in its struggle to maintain its existence and integrity, and to restore its usurped rights and territories.” NeedsHas BeensAgeTodayFightingGivenNationsLinesExistenceStruggleRightsMilitaryFrontsExampleTomorrowIntegrityGlorySoldierIraqFighterRemarkableCourageousTerritoryOfficersDescendantsMilitary PowerToday And Tomorrow Author:Saddam Hussein
“Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.” HumansHas BeensWarEnergyUnitedClassStruggleEconomicExampleDeterminationFlyingEnthusiasmRealizationHumankindSolidarityUtopiaClass Struggle Author:Erich Fromm
“A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.” MenWorldHas BeensStillsTodayExampleBattleFemalePrejudiceConductorGood ExamplesConductingToday's World Author:Lara St. John
“Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.” IfsThinkingMenYearsHas BeensBookStoriesArtistExampleIncrediblesDecadesComicComic BookX MenAdapting Author:David Hayter
“You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.” TryingYearsHas BeensCountryUseCareAblePartyTakenExampleStudentsRepublicanTraditionInstitutionsSevenVariousUnhappyMiserableAdministrationBarackHealth CareEmsAgendasRepublican PartyLoanSeven YearsEducation SystemHealth Care SystemStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.” PeopleHas BeensSelfSpiritualPoliticalExampleConstantInstanceSpiritual LifeExaminationCombiningPolitical LifeSelf-examination Author:Pankaj Mishra
“Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeHas BeensLawHumanityCasesCrimeExampleLowsEvidenceTrialsCampsAcceptableDocumentsDocumentaries80sCrimes Against HumanityDeath Camps Author:Marvin Hier
“Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensTwoAmericaCultureSecretInfluenceExampleHundredConstantBritishIndianAutobiographyDescribingThoroughScotchIntermarriage Author:Richard Rodriguez
“A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt.” IfsHas BeensBigsLawWrittenExampleInstitutionsFinancialCodeAmbitiousFinancial Institutions Author:Robert F. Engle
“I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.” ThinkingKindLongHas BeensBigsMovingTermOpinionExampleLong TimeNegativeLong TermTechnologicalShort Term Author:Chuck Klosterman
“There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.” Has BeensFactsLostOpinionExamplePositionJudgingIntegrityEnormousQualifiedDisabledControversialSpeaking Out Author:Deborah Rhode
“For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through relationships and processes. They are not inherent in electrons or photons or quanta any more than they are inherent in soil or trees or people. So my critique of reductionistic science is a critique that I have inherited from my scientific training. But it has been deepened by my experiences as an ecologist, in seeing the ecological destruction taking place today.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensIdeasTodayProcessSeeingTreeExampleObjectsTrainingDestructionPropertyFixedSoilQuantumInherentCritiqueEcologicalElectronsPhotons Author:Vandana Shiva
“I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindHumansHas BeensImportantBodyRealityRealizingNaturalAttentionIssuesSubjectsExampleAspectDoctorsImportanceStressMedicineMedicalLifestyleAlternativesTherapyWorthwhileInteractionConventionalThreatenedHuman BodyParadigmInsistingMind BodyAlternative MedicineMedical Education Author:Andrew Weil
“Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.” PeopleHas BeensRolesExampleFemaleHollywoodFaultsMalesEnsembleExpendables Author:Paul Feig
“Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.” GivingHas BeensMadeEyeMovingLeftRealizingStepsExampleGiving UpPagesBuiltFollowingAccustomedWombArmorTypewriters Author:William S. Burroughs
“Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.” HumansHas BeensIndividualHuman BeingsResultsExamplePersonalityIslamGenreContributionWord Of GodContrastNeverthelessDocumentsVocabularyLiterary Genre Author:D. A. Carson
“The presidency has even become a partisan thing. The presidency has been totally politicized and totally made partisan, as evidenced by the IRS going after the Tea Party and any number of other examples I give you.” GivingHas BeensMadePartyNumbersExampleTeaPresidencyTea PartyPartisansIrs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.” FirstsHas BeensGovernmentTodayLawReadingNationsDealsMoralTroubleMiddleCenturyExampleInvolvedExerciseLettersConstitutionClaimsDifficultyVariousEastEstablishmentMiddle EastAmendmentsOutsidersFoundersFirst AmendmentUs Constitution Author:Bill Nye