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«That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.»
«Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.»
«Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
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Politics
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«The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
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Living,
Religion
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«Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Example
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«Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Example
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«Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.»
«People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
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People
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An example, change hands, example, handed, suggestions
«Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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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.»
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