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“The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.”

Way Bigs Might School Values Hate Class Teach Example Financial Debt Handle Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother Mama Financial Literacy Big Mama

Author:Michelle Singletary

“Content to follow when we lead the way.”

Book:Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Source: Translation of the Iliad of Homer

“It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.”

Way Written Example Humble Irony Apology

Book:Works

Source: Works

“This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.”

Way Humans Remember Winning Loses Enemy Teach Darkness Our Lives Sacrifice Example Hero Weapons Bigger Ships Faster Drs Right Time Ingenuity Nothing New Don't Lose Hope

Author:Ann Aguirre

“The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches you to put together the signs. For example, I look at a person and I see their coat, their jacket, their handwriting, their iPhone, and I am able to deduct some details about who they are, what they wear, and what they do. For many years I was fascinated with Sherlock Holmes. The series trained me to look at the world through these sharp, unforgiving eyes.”

World Way Years Looks Persons Book Reality Eye Able Together Deals Teach Example Series Details Fascinated Coats Jackets Iphone Holmes Handwriting Unforgiving

Author:Signe Baumane

“We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.”

Way Book Country Faces Media Example Position Mass Presses Magazines Frightened Controlled Communist Other Countries Publish Freedom Of The Press Mass Media Kkk

Author:Pete Seeger

“My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you'll forget why.”

Ifs Way Said Mother Loses Forget Existence Mistake Watches Example Taught Calling One Day Wake Up Tricks Repeats Sunset Over You Routine Homework Sameness Monotony Same Mistakes Pms

Author:Phil Kay

“Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.”

Men Way Persons Might Certain Crime Example Praying Opposites Madness Mad Instance Obliged Supposing

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.”

Way Body Film Certain Modern Example Periods Bounds Traditional Gestures Wardrobe

Author:Donnie Yen

“The best way to understanding is a few good examples.”

Way Understanding Example Best Way Good Examples

Author:Isaac Newton

“The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.”

Way Writing Stills Different Use Games Example Tvs Scripts Dialogue Storytelling Branches Software Screenplays Optional

Author:Sam Lake

“Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.”

“Very often, the way love is defined, it does violence to both people. It almost makes them a slave to the other. For example, if to be in love, or to be married, it means that I'm responsible for the other person's happiness, now we get into this guilt game, where if they're upset, I'm at fault. Soon, that makes the person we are closest to about as much fun to be around as a prolonged dental appointment.”

“Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.”

Thinking Men Way Feels Might Running Form Language Answers Saws Example Limits Ethics Bounds Nonsense Urges Paradox Nevertheless Astonishment

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

“A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.”

Source: The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star

“Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.”

People Way Choices Process Example Election Communicate Conclusion Bottlenecks Election Process

Author:Gabe Newell

“YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.”

Thinking Way Example Models Areas Proven Autonomy Youtube

Author:Salar Kamangar

“I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.”

Way Careers Example Right Way

Author:Jamie Moyer

“We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.”

Way America Example Ignorance Advantage Patterns Corruption Cruelty Avarice Treachery Inhumanity Incline Inexperience

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.”

Way Doe Self Feelings Turns Process My Own Attention Brain Consciousness Cases Example Particular Supposed To Be Self Conscious Foreheads Self Consciousness

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function.”

Way Giving Important Science Certain Names Special Example Function Mathematics Property Convenient

Author:Richard Askey

“Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.”

Knows Way I Can Race Modern Example Scientist Pressure Aliens Winner Beast Autobiography Rats Extinction No Money Patents Rat Race

Author:June Goodfield

“The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Life Is Break Example Attractive Intimate Irrelevant Arena Attractive Man

Author:Zadie Smith

“Make your influence a good one. Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person.”

Ifs World Way Mean Persons Whole Would Be Influence Example Proud Whole World Just One Be Proud

Author:Lindsey Stirling

“The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.”

Way Should Whole Jesus Example Exception

Author:Carl Jung

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“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

“Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.”

Author:Pliny the Elder

“We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.”

People Way Action Energy Example Reflection Patterns Internals Our Actions

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.”

Way Want Children Teach Example Treats Our Children Your Children Treat Yourself

Author:Ingrid Weir

“The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'”

“Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.”

“The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like “childbirth fever” claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!”

“I don't think for example that the Indians look at [what is right and what is wrong] that way [the Palestinians do]. There are a billion, 200 million people in that part of the world. Why? They suffer from terror. People that do not suffer from it don't understand what I'm talking about, you know?”

People Thinking Knows World Way Looks Suffering Talking Millions Example Terror Billions Palestinian

Author:Shimon Peres

“I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.”

Thinking Way Play Hands Example Products Comfortable Innovation Apples Temples Consumerism Dissatisfaction Advertisers

Author:John Elkington

“Obviously you can look at things however you choose to and I'm not proud of some people in sports, but I don't really look at it as my calling to be out there setting an example. I just try to treat people the way the I want to be treated - with respect and some dignity.”

People Way Want Trying Looks Sports Example Proud Calling Dignity Treats Setting Treated Settings You Choose Setting An Example

Author:Mark Martin

“Some countries need extra stimulus in specific areas. Something has to be done against high youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, for example. But in the end, there is no way around it: The debt levels have to come down.”

Way Needs Ends Country Done Levels Example Youth Areas Debt Extras Unemployment Spain Greece Stimulus

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.”

People Way Play Together Young Guy Black Community White Example Models Harmony Setting Settings White Guys Old Guys Young Guys Black Guys Being Old Setting An Example

Author:Bill Frisell

“The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Country Government Example Other Countries Cuban

Author:Assata Shakur

“There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that in various ways. They can control it directly by open market operations, buying and selling government securities or other assets, for example, buying and selling gold, or they can control it indirectly by altering the rate at which banks lend to one another.”

Way Government One Thing Security Example Gold Rate Various Selling Operations Buying Assets Liability Central Banks Buying And Selling

Author:Milton Friedman

“The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.”

Thinking Way Character Stories Shows Values Speak Moral Example Evolution Messages You Like It

Author:Philip Pullman

“There is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.”

“I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.”

Way Want Helping Hands School Teacher Progress Example Tests Profession Attractive Principal Curriculum Great Teacher Best Teacher Preps School Curriculum

Author:Wendy Kopp

“If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one way to interpret God's will is that you should love your neighbor. An alternate reading of the holy books might lead you to rig a donkey cart with small mortar rockets and aim it at a hotel full of infidels. In summary, po-tay-to, poh-tah-to. Religions are very flexible.”

“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

“I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.”

Ifs Way Life Should Firsts Soul Done Order Church Sin Example Fields Strange Should Have Saving Sunday Preaching Decency Reconcile Tenacious

Author:John Wesley

“My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?”

“Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.”

Ifs Way May Government Community Childhood Example Disease Stronger Spending Resistance Outcomes Nutrition Vaccines Expenditures Government Spending Vaccinations Immunisation

Author:Michael Moore

“It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing - you tear the ceiling off - that's much easier than it is to come in and say, 'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'. When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.”

Way Play Difficult Love You Example Tears Judging Easier Heavy Hello Addict Ceilings Heroin Withdrawing

Author:James Stewart