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"I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy."
"Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense."
"It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!"
"Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives."
"It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I."
"The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience"
"Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience."
"A good example is the best sermon."
"I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example."
"A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear."
"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."
"Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand."
"The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are already there."
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things."
"We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good."
"I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself: If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for such posters."
"A good example has twice the value of good advice"
"To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations."
"History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future."
"I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time."
