"Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea."
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"Nothing is so catching as example."
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"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."
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"Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them."
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"Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate."
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"I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!"
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"What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?"
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"There is nothing more frustrating than a good example."
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"Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty."
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"A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places."
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"Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it."
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"The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose."
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"For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1 enriches it a bit: "the fool has said in his heart, there is no God." So there are contextual constraints and when you finish putting in all the contextual constraints and sophisticated discussions of what inerrancy is and isn't."
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"The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered."
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"To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion."
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"Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example."
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"The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer."
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"I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts."
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"I think when you're governing, it will become increasingly apparent that if you were to just eliminate trade deals with Mexico, for example, well, you've got a global supply chain. The parts that are allowing auto plants that were about to shut down to now employ double shifts is because they're bringing in some of those parts to assemble out of Mexico. And so it's not as simple as it might have seemed."
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