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Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

“He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.”

Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777

“The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.”

Helping Body Opportunity Lord Seeing Position My Family Increase Instance Etc Deliverance

Book:Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)

Source: Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)

“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.”

People Men Want Reason Difficult Chance Christianity Offers Instance Prescriptions

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.”

Enjoy Levels Economic Higher Benefits Research Percent Workers Careful Instance Excess Compensation Coverage Private Sector Pension Premium Public Sector Health Coverage

Author:Bob Beauprez

“I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.”

Knows Persons Real Helping Models Scripts Real Life Painter Instance Enjoyed Help Me Frank

Author:Al Pacino

“The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.”

Years Reality Cutting Effects Amount Taxes Instance Revenue Tax Cuts

Author:Mike Pence

“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.”

War Evil Ability Goes On Instance Identification Two Evils

Author:Saul Bellow

“I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.”

Shows Habit Clean Bars Instance Show Me Salad Beets

Author:Chris Pratt

“It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one’s working here and one’s working there, or one’s staying at home and one’s off someplace else.”

Long Two Hard Home Together Actors Wind Distance Instance Staying Long Distance Distance Relationship Long Distance Relationship

Author:Dennis Quaid

“On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.”

Believe Government Gone Media Information Members British Contact Instance Ireland Northern Ireland Ira

Author:Kate Adie

“So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.”

People Knows Want Clear Taxes Let Me Raises Statements Instance

Author:Mitt Romney

“You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.”

Knows Way Play Stories Incredibles Instance Plot Recognizing Twists Diaries Motorcycle Bikers Plot Twists

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.”

World Humans Has Beens Desire Interest Taken Gains Possession Instance Permanent Human Life Goods Anxious Fierce Craving Momentary Unrest Enrichment

Author:Felix Adler

“Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.”

Ifs Believe Instance Barack Enterprise Alright Free Enterprise

Author:Marco Rubio

“Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.”

Stills Issues Agree Instance Administration Agreement Secretary

Book:The World According to Rummy

Source: The World According to Rummy

“I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'”

Thinking Soul Religious Instance

Author:Salman Rushdie

“As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Kind Wanted Film Used Novel Reader Instance Flashback Compression

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Two Reason Film Literature Given Reader Difficulty China Instance Chinese

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

“A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.”

World Doe Country Amount Driven Enormous Instance Firm Labour Providing Translations Countries Of The World

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir

“If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'”

Ifs World Different States Use America President Modern Instance Lifts Curtains Modern World Elevators Deranged Drapes

Author:Alexei Sayle

“The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.”

Used Artist Term Cases Fit Instance Giants Kurosawa

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.”

Thinking Made Book Happened Possibility Instance Torture Suspicion Sections

Author:Peter Singer

“Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.”

Law Land Constitution Supreme Instance Articles Treaties

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.”

Men Believe May Has Beens Christian America Jesus Devil Instance Enlightened Possessed

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.”

World Looks Girl Rights Fronts Regard Obvious Gender Access Instance Subtle Denied Womens Rights Stereotype Gender Stereotypes Access To Education

Author:Adora Svitak

“Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.”

People World Trying Art Country America Form Known Jazz Musical Instance Damn Things To Do Other Countries Jazz Music Damn Things

Author:Art Blakey

“A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.”

People World Culture Lost Community Acting New York Friends Gay Aids Instance Hiv Lost Friend Gay Community

Author:Emma Thompson

“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”

Soul Moments Beauty Instance Triumph Gonzo

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.”

Years Sometimes Helping Dream Force Interesting Teaching Helping Others Flying Instance Angle Teaching Others

Author:John Travolta

“Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.”

Firsts Force Wish Greater Mercy Instance 4th Of July Distinguished Rigor

Author:George Washington

“Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.”

Persons Inspiration Morning Growing Up Growing Streets Keys Walking Instance Manners Key Things

Author:Usain Bolt

“When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.”

Bigs Sound Records Instance Halls Concerts Orchestra Symphony Sweeping Symphony Orchestras

Author:Teddy Wilson

“There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.”

World Movement Lists Terrorist Resistance Instance Islamic Ira

Author:Ahmed Yassin

“For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.”

Littles Home Dream Felt Rooms Fantasy Dresses Instance Paris Somewhere Else Sketching

Author:Alber Elbaz

“I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.”

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Author:David Bowie

“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.”

Years Happens Able Absolutes Transformation Instance Pretending No Point Copyright

Author:David Bowie

“We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.”

Knows Certain Type Areas Instance Nasty Viruses Influenza Sars

Author:Nathan Wolfe

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

Has Beens Wise Sorry Instance Merry

Book:Emma: A Novel

Source: Emma: A Novel

“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”

“Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.”

Way Together Can Do Like You Solutions Passing Passings Instance Cells Impulse Overwhelming Living Things Back Together Dump Sponges

Author:Bill Bryson

“The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.”

“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.”

Matter Stories Life Is Turns Next Goes On Fingers Instance Substance Logical Globes Orderly Make Out

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.”

Source: Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal

“In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.”

May Important Turns Fall Water White Boys Sun Heard Sky Cry Green Legs Disappear Disaster Ships Instance Expensive Forsaken Icarus

Book:Canción de cuna y otros poemas

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.”

“There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.”

People Ifs Humans Mean Two Different States Courses Differences Views Instance Interpretation Sequence Ambiguity Human Relationships Ambiguous Different Interpretations Differing Views

Author:Elliot Perlman

“Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the job—because all that one does in America is considered a "job"—with no clear sense as to what is required or where one will ultimately be led. In that respect, it is as particular an instance of a "calling" as one might point to. For years I've kept in mind, "Many are called but few are chosen." Even so "called," there were no assurances that one would be answered.”

Knows Years Mind Doe Stills Country Might Would Be Jobs America Clear Particular Poet Calling Chosen Instance Assurance

Author:Robert Creeley

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