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“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned into witches. You can’t avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. That’s the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth. Or you can be like a river when a forest fire hits it--phshhhhhhhhhhhh! Just drown it, drown all the heat and let it wash away.”

Mean Earth Dies Energy Challenges Interesting Fire Rivers Passing Forests Passings Instance Heat Witch Buried Interesting Things Titans Forest Fires

Author:David James Duncan

“To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.”

Men Character Belief Imagine Originals Intellect Instance Commonplace Misgivings

Book:The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)

Source: The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)

“To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.”

Thinking Giving Should Helping Seems Teach Reflection Forgiving Errors Faults Instance Nonsense Distraction Modesty Bias Inhumanity

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.”

Ifs Way Art Ideas Term Race Watches Laughing Awareness Jokes Prejudice Gender Critical Instance Comedian Filmmaker Etc Racist Inherent Conventional Consent

Book:Nerd Do Well

Source: Nerd Do Well

“The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.”

Ifs May Ideas Truth Forever Century Instance Triumph Pleasant Falsehood Persecution

Author:John Stuart Mill

“If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters S-C-H-M replacing the first letters. Somebody who didn’t care about dentists, for instance could say ‘Dentist, schmentists.”

Ifs Way Firsts Feelings Care Letters Don't Care Instance One Way Repeats Dentist

Author:Daniel Handler

“There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.”

Ifs Reason Might Order Courses Secret Heard Messages Fingers Instance Code Charm Breasts Savages Employed Spy Snaps Grinning Snapping

Author:Daniel Handler

“13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.”

People Want Made Percent Tables Instance Cake Disagree Roof Arrangements Percentages Occasional Dessert

Author:Daniel Handler

“To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.”

People Littles Ideas Able Form Struggle Slavery Instance Chains Obsessed

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.”

People Self Reason Able Order Subjects Solitude Forgotten Complaining Surrender Pity Instance Charm Admiration Discretion Self Pity Overlooked My Birthday Discreet

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.”

Two Ideas School Taught Accepted Instance Geometry Misconception Follow Me

Book:The Works of Wells

Source: The Works of Wells

“It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.”

Knows Way Years Reason Might Courses Change Simple Knowing Trust Circumstances Musician Hungry Instance Novelists Pot Soup Boiling

Author:Daniel Handler

“Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.”

May Children Remember Father Games Happened Week Events Adventure Mets Woods Instance Dead Father

Book:Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

“I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.”

World Has Beens Stills I Can Past Universe Ability Events Broken Prove Miracle Convinced Ignorant Instance Entity Deities Altered

Author:Christopher Paolini

“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”

Important Values Illusion Shadow Instance Substance

Book:Quartet

Source: Quartet

“You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)”

Knows Want Firsts Soul Shows Albums Bunch Instance Show Me Nickelback

Book:The Dirty Streets of Heaven: Bobby Dollar 1

Source: The Dirty Streets of Heaven: Bobby Dollar 1

“Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’ ‘A novel, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘”The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.”‘ ‘Oh, I like that. What’s it about?’ ‘Everything.’ ‘Everything? You mean, for instance, it’s about cancer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How about my wife?’ ‘She’s in there too.”

Writing Mean Stories Inspiration Names Novel Wife Cancer My Wife Instance Short Story Sheets Doom Halfway

Author:Charles Bukowski

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.”

Way Trying Ends Reality Seems Eye Silence Happened Events Demand Travel Comfortable Affair Instance Narrative Explanation Description Love Affair Irritating Machu Picchu

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”

Source: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

“The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion”

Truth Theory Presses Instance Discussion Free Press

Author:e. e. cummings

“I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.”

“We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.”

Weakness Instance Looking Good Leo Valdez

Author:Rick Riordan

“To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.”

Shows Position Longing Clever Instance

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.”

Thinking Littles Felt Sun Forever Land Painting Creatures Instance Chains Hopeless Living Creatures Ankles Fluttering Convergence Finches

Author:Donna Tartt

“Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.”

Men Way Return Instance Butterfly Been In Love Wrong Man

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.”

Men Years Mind Wells Has Beens Time Three Results Four Twenties Eight Instance Curious Fixed Dimensions Representation Portraits Sections Geometry Seventeen

Book:The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

“I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.”

People Way Believe Values I Believe Worry Depression Instance Prize

Author:Shelby Foote

“The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.”

Ifs Way Deals Serious Beats Determined Instance Killers Frightening Leukemia

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.”

Ifs World Mean Doe Problem Action America Stage Military Instance Primaries Nails Graduation Components Hammers Backbone Military Action

Author:Barack Obama

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

“The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe to draw any inference in favor of a man's morals, from the fervor or strictness of his religious exercises, even though he himself believe them sincere.”

Source: The Natural History of Religion: Revision of Great Book

“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.”

People Mind May Has Beens Body Young Known Materials Months Balls Dancing Dance Passing Passings Instance Injury Description

Book:Emma

Source: Emma

“A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.”

Suffering Left Sin Principles Thirds Adversity Misery Mere Instance Sensibility Departure Precedent

Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)”

Knows Age Stuff Lines Sleep Party Mistake Security Bed Instance Planes Convince Airports Sissy

Author:Olivia Wilde

“As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.”

May Science Growth Expression Source Evolution Males Factors Instance Nerves Genes Organs Bizarre Snakes Venom

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.”

“The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.”

“We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.”

Mean Cost Majors Training Workers Immigration Instance American Workers American Business Laid Off Skilled Workers

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.”

“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”

War Nations Army Instance Warfare

Author:Sun Tzu

“In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.”

Firsts Kind Community Common Fate Impossible Terrorism Instance Insomnia Global Community

Author:Ulrich Beck

“The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.”

People Purpose Behinds Taken Terrorism Instance Transportation Electrical Instill Electrical Power

Author:Vinton Cerf

“You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.”

“What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.”

Law Fear Conscience Instance

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.”

Inspirational Sports Instance Boxing Motivational Sports Hitting

Author:George Foreman

“I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?”

Ifs Looks Play Care Games Grief Secret Cases Worry Shots Balls Hot Raises Golf Don't Care Instance Miserable Over You Chips Wretched

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.”

Source: De rerum natura

“Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.”

Persons Has Beens Opinion Instance

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind.”

Source: An Essay on Miracles. No. 10 of the

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