"You must show the world that you abhor fighting."
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"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese."
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"Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority."
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"What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?"
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"Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way."
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"Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever."
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"I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel."
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"Anytime you have a thought, for example, that excludes someone, if you have a religion that excludes someone, then you've really left God behind, and you've really left your source energy behind."
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"Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
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"Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love."
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"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
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"Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example."
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"You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy."
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"It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more."
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"So my view's quite clear. I believe Cryptocurrencies, bitcoin is the first example, i believe they're going to Change the world."
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"If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far."
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"Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant."
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"The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others."
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"The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work."
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"With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people."
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