"Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite."
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"The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world."
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"Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear."
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"Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers."
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"Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward."
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"Well," he said, "f’r example, if they ask where you’ve come from, you could say ‘Behind me,’and if they asked where you’re going, you’d say ‘In front of me."
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"Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us."
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"For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished."
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"Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several."
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"My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on."
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"Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free."
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"There are follies as catching as contagious disorders."
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"Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty."
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"Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens."
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"I try to follow his example, not to imitate him."
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"Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist."
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"Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us."
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"We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts."
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"Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities."
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"The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all."
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