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Jim Shaw Artist, Painter

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"Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth."

Earth Example Aspergers

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer

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"The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine."

Mirrors Example Doctrine

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman

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"While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave, and in the end that was more valuable than money. Being surrounded by the right values from the beginning is an immense treasure. Warrenhad that. It even has a financial advantage."

People Real Example

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Confucius Philosopher

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"From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence."

Men Ambition Example

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer

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"The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example."

Age Example Complaining

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James Monroe Politician

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"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."

People Growth Example

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer

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"In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society."

Men Example Weakness

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Aesop Fabulist

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"Example is the best precept."

Inspirational Wisdom Example

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor

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"Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time."

Funny Humor Example

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist

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"After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject."

Light Animal Example

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher

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"We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare."

Evil Sight Example

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

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"Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers."

Writing Want Example

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Richard Benjamin Actor

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"I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me."

Community Example Dixie

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet

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"It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with."

Mind Civilization Example

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist

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"To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs."

Men Dog Example

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Writer

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"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."

Evil Example Volunteer

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Herbert Schiller Communication Theorist

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"how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?"

Example Freedom Of Speech Democratic

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Marlon Brando Actor, Director

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"Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have."

Example Capitalism Mafia

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer

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"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."

Two Example Flattery

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Pliny the Elder Naturalist, Author

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"There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder."

Law Doctors Example

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