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  • This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
  • I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
  • The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
  • Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
  • I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
  • Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
  • Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
  • We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
  • Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
  • Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Washington Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ben Barnes You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody A good example is far better than a good precept.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Barbara Castle Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bobby Scott Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bob Uecker Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bob Diamond Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Huey Newton Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
    Revolutionary Suicide (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Rebecca West But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bruce Schneier Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
    Biancuzzi, Federico (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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