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“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.”

Wells Seems Sea Missing Danger Example Mines Oil Agency Coal Trading Strengthening Derivatives Deep Sea

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.”

Wells Doe Has Beens Made Beautiful Speak Quality Example Available Brilliant Quantity Good Examples Beautiful Music

Author:Ian MacKaye

“As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.”

Wells Example Sight Moved Treated Cheer Role Models

Book:Ricordi

Source: Ricordi

“I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.”

Wells Age Artist Example Tests Absolutes Test Of Time

Author:Giorgio Armani

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”

Ifs Way Mind Wells Play Hands Streets Childhood Example Bears Beats Baseball Police Prison Dictatorship Adolescence Repression

Author:Daniel Ortega

“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”

Wells Mean Done Problem Loss Environment Land Example Serious Ought Cost Fundamentals Trade Productions Statements Soil Expenses Farms Farmers Pollution Deficit Pesticides Groundwater

Author:Wes Jackson

“Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but out of the shipwreck of all human efforts whatsoever.”

Source: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus

“It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Kind Enough Stories Seems Remember Names Water Common Break Example Listening Understood Aspect Medicine Ancient Isolation Commandments Fever Precaution

Author:Mark Nepo

“When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms