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«I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth.»
«If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.»
Author: Catherine Aird
| Keywords:
example, good example, horrible, serve, serve up, serve well, The Warning, warning, warnings
«I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.»
«It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.»
«Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anyway, be on, do-nothing, echo, example, explain, guard, image, imitate, on the way, reflection, shape, tend, The Image
«He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Advice,
Example,
Truth
| Keywords:
admonition, builds, counsel, counseled, counseling, example, hands down, hand down, pulls, pull down
«In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cold, corruption, criticism, example, excluded, excludes, excluding, for example, innocent, innocents, innocent of, institutions, in all, mushroom, mushrooms, Open society, senates, societies, such institutions, wind
«Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.»
«Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Example
| Keywords:
annoyance, annoyances, example, few, good, good example, harder, Harder Than You, Hard on, hard up, put, put over, put through, put under, put up, Than, things, with
«Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Example
| Keywords:
example, good example, harder, put up
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