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«In boys and girls alike, and in more of their elders, perhaps, than we suspect, the affection for dolls is chiefly an aspect of the social sense and an example of the pleasure we all take in projecting our own personalities and in controlling the liv»
Author: Odell Shepard
| About:
Boys,
Girls,
Personality
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«This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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«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)
| About:
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
| About:
Living,
Religion
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«ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
An example, An example of, century, this century, throughout
«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.»
«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.»
«I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself»
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