"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example."
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"Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example."
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"The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time."
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"Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something."
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"The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can."
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"I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents."
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"Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom."
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"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."
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"One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness."
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"I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training."
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"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others."
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"You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that."
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"[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]"
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"Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like."
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"Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation."
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"People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight."
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"Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science."
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"Young heads take example of the ancient"
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"Nothing preaches better than the act."
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"If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery."
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