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“When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.”

Men Firsts Different Land Century Battle British Instance Administration Defeated 20th Century Revolt Different Place

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.”

Mind Believe Facts Instance Merit Motive Sexism Judged Timing Credibility Harassment

Author:Anna Quindlen

“There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.”

Seems Virtue Particular Exercise Goodness Forgiveness Harder Instance Injury Moderation Engaging Amiable

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.”

Men Done Lucky Skills Luck Fortune Accidents Instance

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”

Age Religion Found Strange Return Instance Worms Mixtures Mistress Corpses Tombs Jerusalem Pilgrimage Gallantry

Author:Horace Walpole

“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”

Problem Science Social Natural Conditions Events Lessons Negative Presses Instance Prime Relativity Social Science Natural Science Correlation

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.”

Firsts May Book Literature Fiction Novel Taste Mass Science Fiction Rate Credit Genuine Instance Genre Volume Pornography Trash Ratios Shady

Author:Susan Sontag

“There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.”

Truth Culture Understanding Known Instance Forsaken

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.”

Thinking Knows Should Important Reason Light Heaven Dark Plans Wonderful Journey Crazy Future Green Instance Thyself Merry Know Thyself Pastures Green Pastures

Author:Mel Brooks

“One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.”

Life Should Taken Importance Instance Too Short Trifles

Author:Nicolas Bentley

“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.”

Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

“Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.”

Men Interest Objects Essence Remains Individuality Devotion Instance Mysterious Patriotic Comment Historian Legends Abraham Elusive Biographers

Book:The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Mammy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.”

Enough Character Certain Worry Laughing Gone Wind Radio Instance Bother Offensive Stereotype

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for instance, weddings, having babies, buying houses, and driving cars. Parents who are separating really need to help their children put divorce on that grown-up list, so that children do not see themselves as the cause of their parents' decision to live apart.”

Needs Children Helping House Causes Parent Decision Responsibility Accepting Car Baby Divorce Lists Driving Instance Buying Separating Having A Baby Driving Cars Buying A House

Author:Fred Rogers

“It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.”

Done Problem Difficult Circumstances Concepts Instance Reasoning Categories Problem Solving Detectives Analogies Pseudo Deductions Inference

Book:To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

Source: To Think: In Language, Learning and Education

“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.”

“I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.”

“We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.”

Mean Art Important Use Values Actors Loses Acting Music Musician Instance Charm Outstanding Really Mean Often Is Important Words

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.”

Home Found Stars Losing Pressure Unions Chess Instance Soviet Immense Apartment Soviet Union Moscow

Author:Liz Garbus

“I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.”

Writing Book Interest Rooms Moral Cases Novel Media Scene Aspect Instance Discussion Representation Avoiding

Author:Emma Donoghue

“But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.”

Country Values Interest Truth Is Pursue Instance

Author:William J. Clinton

“Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog, which consisted of the sentence 'I hate myself,' typed four billion times. In Dean's case, this may be the first instance where the actually entity represented by the web site has crashed more often than the site did.”

Years Firsts May Today Hate Race Cases Four I Hate Sentences Billions Campaigns Instance Presidential Entity Site Innovative Blogs Dean Analysts Hate Myself I Hate Myself

Author:Dennis Miller

“The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.”

Body White Levels Stage Higher Normal Thirds Reactions Instance

Book:Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

Source: Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]

“Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.”

Believe Facts Stories Problem Faces Parent Worst Illusion Instance Love And Death Consoling Reunited

Author:Sam Harris

“There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.”

Looks Order Grows Shadow Horse Instance Restless Up And Down Psychologist Wavering

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.”

“They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.”

Information Policy Foundation Instance Limitation Imperfect Academic Economist Free Market Explaining Theoretical

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.”

Kind Stills Different Hard Found Black White Quality Saws Cutting Red Stones Woods Mediums Instance Lava Quarry Umbria Red And Black

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...”

Needs Hands Purpose Differences Greater Effects Machines Intelligent Presses Accomplish Instance Engines Beam Workmen Greater Power

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.”

Wells Cities Objects Instance Aesthetic Veils Suburbs Persian American Cities

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.”

Believe Opinion Doubt Instance True Ones

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.”

“A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.”

Ifs Persons Goal Ten Instance Commandments Vague Impressive Ten Commandments Very Impressive

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.”

People Knows Seems Answers Knowledge Heard Ignorance Goes On Offers Ignorant Instance Worldly Seeming Advisable

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.”

Writing Would Be Order Speak Natural Seeing Effects Produce Conversation Despair Letters Instance Links Bizarre Deaf Deafness Natural Order Interchange

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.”

Ifs Has Beens Hands Grows Perfect Results Effort Path Keys Easier Skills Achievement Instruments Series Finals Instance Disappointed Fence Evoke Greatest Success

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.”

Dangerous Particular Instance Application

Book:The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode

Source: The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode

“You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.”

Should Pay Quality Advice Lifetime Instance Pay Attention Coffins

Author:Kurt Tucholsky

“The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.”

Literature Survival Instance Symbols Canada

Author:Margaret Atwood

“When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.”

World Giving Mind Believe Persons Has Beens Two I Believe Opinion Particular Opposites I Believe In Credit Instance Divided Witch Witchcraft Paganism Two Opposites Wiccan

Book:The de Coverley papers

Source: The de Coverley papers

“There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.”

Ifs Firsts Courses Dangerous Ought Affair Silly Mediums Instance Folly Gossip Sober Wickedness Earnest Love Affair Unkind

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.”

Poverty Genius Instance Forgetful Never Fear

Author:Benjamin Haydon

“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.”

Running Numbers Madness Fishes Instance Host Small Fish

Book:The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Source: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.”

Ifs Mean Doe Members Instance

Author:Lord Randolph Churchill

“I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official "global warming" storyline but also the connections between these instances, and the overall scheme of deception that the individual artifices appear calculated to reinforce.”

“I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.”

People Ifs Want I Can Stories Film Independent Add Studios Instance Independent Film

Author:John Hawkes

“The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

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