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"Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact."
"In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd."
"There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do."
"The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO."
"The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition."
"I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early."
"Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding."
"Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?"
"It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport."
"There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with."
"A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare."
"I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be."
"No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing."
"There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others."
"Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively."
"Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it."
"Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff."
"Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?"
"My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives."
"Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname."
