"When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day."
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"Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example."
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"The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening."
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"It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world."
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"As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all."
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"For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association."
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"Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so."
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"History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man."
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"The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair."
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"I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles."
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"Authority and example lead the world."
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"If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed."
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"The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive."
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"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods."
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"I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example."
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"Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples."
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"Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments."
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"If you set the example you will not have to set the rules."
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"The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors."
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"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
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