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• I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

  Neil Young

  Beach, Guy, Feelings

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• Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

  Theodor Herzl

  Good Life, Men, Example

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• We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

  George Herbert

  Age, Example, Needs

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.8

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• There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

  Mark Twain

  Example, Annoying

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• The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Long, Example

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• The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

  Seneca the Younger

  Example, Tedious

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• So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

  Edmund Spenser

  Example, Doctrine, Gracious

  "The First Book of Spenser's Faerie Queene".

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• Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

  Wendell Phillips

  Example, Speak, Authority

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.114

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• I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.

  Erin Heatherton

  Mother, Strong Women, Powerful

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• If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely set a very good example for others.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Example, World

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• I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'

  Dolly Parton

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

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• Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Friendship, Grief, Perfect

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• No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.

  George Washington

  Political, Storm, Example

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.206

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• A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Two, Bed

  "Standup Comic". 1999.

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• I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe.

  Anna Mae Aquash

  Fighting, Way, Tribes

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• The professionals must set a good example.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Example

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• The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

  Douglas Coupland

  White, Example, Vienna

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Example, Remember, Poor Richard

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.177, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Hypocrisy, Example

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• With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.

  Devin Hester

  People, Example, Looks

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• A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

  Susan Stebbing

  Example, Facts, Said

  "A Modern Introduction to Logic". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 198, 1930.

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• The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

  Thomas Morell

  Inspirational, Example, Firsts

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

  Hosea Ballou

  Example, Influence, Silent

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• It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Example, Easier, Teach

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• Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

  Samuel Rogers

  Men, Example, Action

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