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• If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

  David Hume

  Suicide, Way, Chance

  David Hume (2006). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.595, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mother, Children, Humility

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• YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Isms, Revolutionary, Socialism

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• Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Teaching, Aids, Best Teaching

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• Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

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• Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

  Al Bernstein

  Years, Parent, Age

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• Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Intelligent, Levels

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• 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.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

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• 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.

  Daniel Ortega

  Baseball, Play, Hands

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• May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he Joseph Smith so beautifully taught by example, that we, ourselves, might live more completely the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . May our lives reflect the knowledge we have that God lives, that Jesus Christ is His son, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we are led today by another prophet of God - even President Gordon B. Hinckley.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Son, Gordon B Hinckley

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• Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

  David Duchovny

  Heart, Journey, Stories

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• It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol ‘Marilyn’; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.

  Peter M. Brant

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Men, Practice

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• Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

  James Lovelock

  Couple, Reality, Thinking

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• Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

  Tom Coburn

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Charity

  "Some Lawmakers Suggest Pay Freeze to Help Hurricane Recovery". Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Things In Life, Deeds, Moments

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• For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

  Ben Horowitz

  Majority, Problem, Break

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• Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Were Meant To Be, Portions

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Europe, Ideas, People

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• And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Good Examples

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• Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Notebook, Writing, Design

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Art, Helping Others

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• When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

  Jackie Stewart

  Running, Weekend, Errors

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• I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.

  Russell Simmons

  Commitment, Careers, Common Purpose

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• The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general. And quite frankly, I don't see that changing. I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. You think v2 or later is the default. It's not. The _default_ is to not allow conversion. Conversion isn't going to happen.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Keys, People

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