Instance Quotes - Page 19

• The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.

  Judy Woodruff

  Heyday, United States, Sputnik

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

  Michael Beschloss

  Presidential, 1960s, Candidates

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to play music that I don't like. I only get to do what I enjoy, so that's pretty lucky.

  Norah Jones

  Play, Lucky, Gigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.

  Bill McKibben

  Dying, President, Coral Reefs

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Reading, Punishment, Ideas

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!

  Malcolm X

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.

  Andy Serkis

  Block, Differences, Different

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.

  Grant Heslov

  Book, Men, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm telling as an actual source to the press,I'm telling you as a source that, to the best of my knowledge, and based on conversations that the RNC has had with the FBI, I know of no instance that [George Stephanopoulos] describing involving the RNC or the RNC's data.

  Reince Priebus

  Data, Conversation, Source

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Optimism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It's a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Book, Iraq

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Nobody is delineated, nobody is concentrated. There is a lot of extraneous stuff. Like for instance, the satellites that measure in the atmosphere, there is billions and billions and billions of bytes of data, only maybe 2% of which are actually useful. They don't know what the rest are for, they don't know what good they are.

  Owsley Stanley

  Data, Atmosphere, Stuff

  Source: medium.com

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• When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, People, Essentials

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.

  Carrie Fisher

  Appreciate, Males, Fey

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Two, Priorities

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Listening, Socialism

  Interview With Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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• I was used on a number of occasions by the United States and China as a conduit. For instance, I was up there talking with the Chinese leadership and they said to me that they were a bit concerned that the Americans had a misunderstanding about their relationship with the Soviets. There was some suggestion that there was a rapprochement developing between China and the Soviets, but nothing could have been further from the truth.

  Bob Hawke

  Talking, Numbers, Chinese

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because they are in the warm, caring/sharing community. This is the difference between community (Gemeinschaft) and what Ferdinand Tönnies called Gesellschaft: a kind of setting in which you have no rights to do anything unless you pay for it, and no right to get anything unless you prove that you are 'credit worthy'. In a Gemeinschaft, however, you have a place at the table guaranteed whatever happens.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Caring, Rights, Differences

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• Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Past, Law, Miracle

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• I'm always doing something before I'm going to them. For instance, I was doing a show the night before this one. I never really think about it too much because it's always in the middle of a lot of things.

  Ed Sheeran

  Night, Thinking, Too Much

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, People, Abuse

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

  Susan Sontag

  Museums, Encounters, World

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Selfish, Mean, America

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think I would have been much more attuned to the concerns of people who were desperately in need. I was unfamiliar, for instance, with the plight of those living in the small villages in the deserts and the jungles of Africa.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, People, Plight

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.

  Judith Butler

  Soccer, Fighting, Winning

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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