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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
I assume that people react to things as I would react. For example, if you are nice to people, they should be nice to you.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
When I didn't do 'Runaround Sue' on the 'Ed Sullivan Show,' for example, I didn't listen to my inner voice. I should have.
Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.
The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.
Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.
For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.
I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.
Footballers have a great opportunity to be a good example because the kids want to listen to you and be like you in many ways.
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.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.
The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.
Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.
We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
My world got very big, very fast, and based on a lot of sad examples from the past, a lot of people expect me to get lost in it
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket.
There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.
In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .