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“I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.”

People Knows Government Political Know How Too Much Conditions Citizens Calling Instance Vain Swim Fewer Swings Pendulums Lifeboats

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.”

Needs Humans Government Church Our Lives Progress Balance Demand Aspect Ideals Program Errors Destroyed Instance Counterparts Human Progress Contingency

Author:Dean L. Larsen

“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?”

Men Has Beens Impossible Example Activity Office Instance Posts Compare Latter Concrete Free Market Delivery Post Office

Author:Leonard Read

“Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us to deduce that he is a political nitwit. Other Nobel laureates have been nitwits, for instance, Bertrand Russell. There are a lot of political nitwits in this world. Perhaps the Times could give Krugman a cooking column. He would be its Nobel Prise-winning cooking columnist.”

World Giving Long Has Beens Enough Would Be Political Winning Events This World Cooking Instance Variety Sufficient Covering Columns Nobel Enough Time Columnists

Author:Bob Tyrrell

“Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.”

Firsts May Interest Security Claims Instance Corporate Enterprise Ownership

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star."”

“I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on.”

Ifs Want Should Long Book Term Virtue Effects Possibility Scene Consequence Economics Raises Financial Practicals Instance Long Term Venice Entry Accounting Reminding Boost Heyday

Author:Charlie Munger

“With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's only "Look, it has famous people," then it's a wax museum come to life and that's really boring. It's sort of like what they say about science fiction and horror where the really good ones, if you remove that element of it, it still has to work. That's the reason The Shining works or Rosemary's Baby or Blade Runner.”

People Ifs Looks Stills Reason Character Levels Fiction Emotional Baby Horror Elements Science Fiction Shining Boring Instance Remove Museums Runners Blades Rosemary Blade Runner

Author:James Ponsoldt

“Working with Jim Sheridan for instance, we did this movie Brothers. Jim will ask anybody - we'll get a delivery on set, and like the poor delivery guy will be like, "Here's your pizza," and he'll be like, "Come over here. Come here. I want to ask you a question. Do you think this is real? What do you think? Should we do another take?" And they're like, "I, uh, you want your pizza?" There's no shame in everybody's ideas. There's no shame in somebody not knowing.”

Thinking Want Should Ideas Real Guy Asks Poor Knowing Brother Shame Instance Not Knowing Pizza Delivery

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might know about your own job, you know, and I think that is where movies are such a collaborative art form.”

Thinking Knows Littles Art Might Jobs Form Bits Knowing Little Bit Shame Instance

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“It should be noted that people in the free market rarely bear false witness; integrity is the rule. The morning mile, phone calls, planes the airlines buy, autos by the millions - no one could list the instances - are as represented. We have daily, eloquent, enormous testimony that the Ten Commandments can be and are observed by fallible human beings. Contemporary politics is the most glaring of all exceptions.”

“Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.”

Firsts May Problem Seems Next Difficult Ability Effort Struggle Possibility Skills Painful Satisfaction Communicate Solve Instance Developing Right Thing Find Me New Possibilities

Author:Atul Gawande

“There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.”

Happens Today Space Fiction Technology Planets Depends Discovery Green Science Fiction Various Monsters Things Happen Instance Time Travel Galaxy Space Travel

Book:Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

Source: Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005

“Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.”

People Ifs May Has Beens Kids Poor Environment Taught Terrible Ancient Despite Instance Poor People Starving Stewards Pandas Celts

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“In most instances, at all costs, do NOT check a bag. Especially during the holiday season. You have more flexibility to switch flights, switch airlines or even leave the airport and get a rental car to drive to your next destination. If the airline has your bag, they also have you.”

Ifs Next Car Cost Seasons Checks Flight Instance Holiday Bags Destination Flexibility Airports Airline Holiday Season Car Rental

Author:Beth Mowins

“World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.”

Knows World Mean Culture Race Theology Instance Mold Clergy Travel The World Denominations

Author:Billy Graham

“Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.”

Culture Language Becoming Projects Instance Propaganda Domain

Author:Terence McKenna

“Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”

Thinking Play Sports Football Instance Poetry Is

Author:Robert Frost

“A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.”

People Religious Century Instance Offended Offending Easily Offended

Author:Billy Connolly

“On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!”

Firsts Serious Advertising Instance Email Spam Serious Work

Author:Vinton Cerf

“For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high.”

Source: How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price

“I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.”

Looks Play Character Would Be Film Stuff Difficult Interest Interesting Boys Audience Teacher Needed Guilt Instance Former Dramatic Tension Main Characters

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches.”

Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution

“The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.”

People Looks Made Ideas States Order Nations Interest Ought Congress Instance Look Up Joints

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.”

Thinking Ends Found Perfect Shapes Objectives Instance Remarkable Melody Expansion Lightness Coming To An End

Author:Richard Strauss

“Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.”

Character Performances Excuse Instance Damage Giver Bad Character Bad Performance

Author:Charlie Munger

“Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?”

World Humans Race Instance Human Race Aggressive Aggression Sample

Author:Woody Allen

“There will be select instances where the consumer is interested in paying for premium content. I think it will be difficult to get people to pay for something on the Internet that they can find elsewhere on the Internet for free.”

People Thinking Difficult Pay Internet Instance Consumers Elsewhere Select Premium

Author:Dennis Miller

“Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.”

Photography Invention Instance

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin.”

People Thinking Together Sin Personality Easier Right Now Vote Impression Instance Comic Take Time It Takes Time Portrayal Tics

Author:Dana Carvey

“I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.”

Too Much Arms Hero Instance Length Adages

Author:W. Earl Brown

“There are lots of ways to design a workflow - for instance, some land surveyors book their notes by hand, and some use electronic data collectors. Every firm has its own unique way of arriving at the end product. However, from a licensed land surveyor, the product should always be of the same high quality.”

Way Should Book Ends Use Hands Quality Land Design Products Unique Notes Instance Data Firm Collectors Arriving High Quality Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.”

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Author:John Kiriakou

“He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; [that is,] those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.”

“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.”

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Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.”

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Author:Viswanathan Anand

“I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”

People Way May Long Has Beens Done Facts America Black Race Taken Wise Dog Higher Long Time Red Stronger Agree Finals Instance Grades Australia Black People Worldly

Author:Winston Churchill

“Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.”

“If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.”

Ifs Black Instance Bracelet Wearing Black

Author:Diana DeGarmo

“I did all the usual things. I think I did everything that everybody else does. I did auditions. I went to see people. I went to see the right people in some instances, the wrong people in others. The wrong time in others. The right time in others. Nothing seemed to make any difference. I quit 5 times! I always went back to try again when circumstances came around to it.”

People Thinking Trying Doe Differences Circumstances Quitting Instance Usual Auditions Right Time Try Again I Quit Wrong Time

Author:Frankie Laine

“I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Important Pain Forget Mankind Media Duty Promise Entertainment Instance Performers Worthwhile Strife

Author:Liberace

“For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run. Or people right here in our country [USA] who are food insecure, and yet we as a nation throw out an inconceivable amount of food.”

People Country Running Turns Nations Water Walks Amount Miles Instance Our Country Usa Insecure Turn-on

Author:Joy Bryant

“Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done..." And also, emotionally, with relationships.”

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Author:Kimbra

“After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.”

People Writing Firsts Wanted Together Fun Chance Class Separation Instance Things To Do Nonfiction Shed Haiti Fun Things Carnivals

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“I was quite reluctant in the first instance to come to use the word bisexual with regard to myself because I didn't feel any different inside from the way I had always felt. I always found men attractive. I still find men attractive. I figure out of, you know, every 200 men that pass on the street, I'm going to go, 100 of those are nice looking guys. Now, with every 200 women that pass on the street, maybe one is going to turn my head.”

Knows Men Way Feels Firsts Stills Different Use Guy Turns Found Felt Nice Streets Figures Regard Instance Attractive Find Me Reluctant Bisexual

Author:Tom Robinson

“Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness.”

Knows Might Life Is Accepting Offers Late Instance Too Late Fragile

Author:Chuck Norris

“I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.”

Knows Want Believe Song Records Instance Concerts

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.”

Men Humans Human Beings Animal Dog Treats Bases Horse Every Man Instance Insects

Author:Dalai Lama