“ Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
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“ He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 617
“ His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare. ”
- Jill Hennessy- Copy
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“ A people is but the attempt of manyTo rise to the completer life of one — And those who live as models for the massAre singly of more value than they all. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance. ”
- James Lafferty- Copy
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“ Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. ”
- Robert Cecil- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
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“ I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. ”
- Victoria de los Angeles- Copy
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“ This is the first time a Kurd has been freely elected to be the president of an Arab country. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ”
- Judith Viorst- Copy
- 653
“ I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. ”
- Martin Van Buren- Copy
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“ Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it. ”
- Kirsten Dunst- Copy
- 579
“ Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
- 849
“ Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave us behind Footprints on the sands of time. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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