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• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

  George Carlin

  Futility Of Life, Dust, Trying

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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• It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

  Eric Hoffer

  Eye, Reflection, Echoes

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fighting, Role Models, World

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• No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

  Hosea Ballou

  Influence, Silent, Reproof

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• Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Thinking, May

  "Epistles", IV. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 242-43,

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• 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.

  Giorgio Armani

  Artist, Age, Tests

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• Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kind, Slander, Forgiven

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Kings, People, Rulers

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• For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wind, Rocks, Mind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 26, 2012

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• The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Odor, Ruts, Influence

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• Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

  George Washington

  Powerful, Influence, Be Good

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.479

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Volunteer, Evil, Doe

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• There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others.

  Esther Hicks

  Uplifting, Needs, Clear

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2006). “The Law of Attraction”, p.103, Hay House, Inc

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• The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 20, 2015

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• A good example is the best sermon.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Action

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honorable, Profitable, Good Examples

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press

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• Example moves the world more than doctrine.

  Henry Miller

  Moving, Doctrine, World

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.183, New Directions Publishing

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• Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, People

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• As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Inspiration, Ambition

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Simple, Night

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• For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

  Horace

  Add, Mouths, Tiny

  "Satires", Book I, I, 33, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 30, 1922.

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• Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

  Tibullus

  Grief, Subjects, Thyself

  "Carmina". III. 6. 43,

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• By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Wind, Sea, Water

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• Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mother, Mean, Law

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