Quotes by category:Example

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.

Thomas Jefferson

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I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

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We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

Thomas Jefferson

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We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

Thomas Jefferson

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I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane'... by Tommy Wiseau

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

etc citizens example

The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to.

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You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

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Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

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Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being hu... by Tony Robbins

Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

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All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

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Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example. by Tony Robbins

Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.

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Have good examples and stories to drive home your content. by Tony Robbins

Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

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I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.

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Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesu... by Tullian Tchividjian

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

Tullian Tchividjian

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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollabil... by Ulrich Beck

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

terror example world

The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.

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I try to lead by example. by Usain Bolt

I try to lead by example.

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

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The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

V. S. Pritchett

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I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.

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