Example

Aesop Fabulist

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"Example is more powerful than precept."

Powerful Example

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Aesop Fabulist

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"Being a good example teaches others to be good."

Example Teach Be Good

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian

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"Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person"

Genius Example Curiosity

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

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"For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time."

Example Good Times Flawless

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Wilferd Peterson Author and Speaker

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"In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment."

Art Example Parenthood

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

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"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."

Views Example Quotation Marks

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author

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"Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you."

Jesus Example Crush

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman

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"Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement."

Attention Example Improvement

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur

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"The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away."

Facts Example Bars

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Shepard Smith Journalist

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"I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi."

Kids Example Educated

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician

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"He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example."

Example Shining Sri Lanka

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

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"Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence."

Facts Example Yield

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Saul Williams Poet, Actor, Musician

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"The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time."

Thinking Moving Example

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader

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"I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge."

Example Missionary Carrying On

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader

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"Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status."

Leader Example Hiv

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

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"Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous."

White Democracy Example

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Lewis Wolpert Biologist

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"The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science."

Example Unexpected Physics

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Herman Cain Businessman, Politician

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"We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing."

Example Dust Pms

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Jimi Hendrix Musician, Guitarist

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"A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about."

Order Singing Example

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician

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"Children (nay, and men too) do most by example."

Men Children Example

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