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Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.
So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.
I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers.
In America, we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.
Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.
It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.
I think I lead by example. I don't talk much. I talk when it's needed, but I just go out there and play hard every day and do it the right way.
Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.
Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.
Be a good example and hope the partner gets the hint. Any partner who would attempt to sabotage my fitness regime I would leave... wrong partner.
My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.
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.