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• I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

  Veronica Roth

  Expectations, Parent, Example

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Thinking, Nashville

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• If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.

  Darynda Jones

  Inspirational, Dance, Example

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.216, St. Martin's Press

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• Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what you call a failure face, Linus. Notice how it has failure written all over it. Study it carefully Linus. You rarely see such a good example. Notice the deep lines, the dull vacant look in the eyes. Yes, I would say this is one of the finest examples of a failure face that your liable to see for a long while.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Eye, Long, Dull

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• If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Inspirational, Warning, Example

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• A good example is the best sermon.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Example

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

  Jennifer Crusie

  Inspirational, Dance, Example

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

  Jesse Helms

  Winning, Secret, Opponents

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• I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

  Mia Hamm

  Kids, Long, Worry

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• I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

  Geri Halliwell

  Example, Feels, Settings

  "Geri blossoms". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

  Edmund Spenser

  Example, Doctrine, Gracious

  "The First Book of Spenser's Faerie Queene".

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• Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

  Wendell Phillips

  Example, Speak, Authority

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.114

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• The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

  Seneca the Younger

  Example, Tedious

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• The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Long, Example

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• There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

  Mark Twain

  Example, Annoying

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• We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

  George Herbert

  Age, Example, Needs

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.8

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• Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

  Theodor Herzl

  Good Life, Men, Example

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• No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

  Amelia Earhart

  Spiritual, Kindness, Spring

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• The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Business, Men, Blood

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• Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Example

  "Diplomatic License", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2004.

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• 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.

  Devin Hester

  People, Example, Looks

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• The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

  Oren Arnold

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Children

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• A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

  Susan Stebbing

  Example, Facts, Said

  "A Modern Introduction to Logic". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 198, 1930.

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• We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

  Terence

  Mirrors, Example, Looks

  "Adelphoe". Play by Terence (Act III, Scene 3, line 62), 160 BC.

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