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• Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.

  Luis de Guindos

  Collective Effort, Giving, Important

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• Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

  Katie Leung

  Brother, Dad, Men

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• Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

  Jeff Landry

  Jobs, Oil, Small Business

  "Landry takes on fellow incumbent" by Adam Snider, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.

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• History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  War, Winning, Losing

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• Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

  Stephen Daldry

  Country, Gun, Past

  "Exclusive: Director Stephen Daldry Interview THE READER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 11, 2008.

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• The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Real, May, Admirable

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia S. Churchland, Dagfinn Føllesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.3, MIT Press

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• Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Exercise, Practice, Two

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Party, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

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• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Work, Hero

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• As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, War, Names

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• So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness; consciousness creates reality. Actually truth is inclusive, neither black nor white, nor a shade of grey. Indeed, truth is a multicolored spectrum, a beautiful hologram!

  Peter Shepherd

  Beautiful, Reality, White

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• [It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Good Luck, Two, Feet

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• Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Eyeglasses

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• Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Work Out

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• If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Distance, Real, Taken

  "Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime". Book by Charles Coulston Gillispie, p. 240, January 10, 2009.

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• If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

  Richard Rohr

  Love, Christian, Heart

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• The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Land, Energy, Typical

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• Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Running, Distance

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• Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Character, Doors, Benefits

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Knowledge, Science, Space

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• I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the weekend. I'm not going to be working while I'm with my son in the morning and in the evening.

  David Plotz

  Morning, Son, Weekend

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

  Rick Nielsen

  Husband, Kids, Wife

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Country, Cities, Community

  "Will Cleveland’s police reform offer blueprint for other cities?". "PBS NewsHour", www.pbs.org. May 26, 2015.

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• Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.

  Steve Kroft

  Years, Leader, Political

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

  Mark Shields

  Strong, Home, America

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