#ample

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#advantages #allows #any #being #consider

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#decision #example #for example #go #institutions

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#give #i #infidels #look #mean

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#conscience #europeans #example #importance #know

We've been working our tail off and lead by that example. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#example #lead #off #our #tail

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. ↗

— Julius Rosenwald

#because #believing #contrary #fooled #into

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#earth #even #expect #extinct #extremely

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example. ↗

— Peter Singer

#counterproductive #example #give #giving #likely