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• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Plato, Death Penalty, Philosopher

  "Years of Minutes"‎ by Andy Rooney, (p. 332), 2004.

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• Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

  Anne Lamott

  Dresses, Attention, Print

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.14, Anchor

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• So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

  Robert Lanza

  Views, Law, Space

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.beliefnet.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, Trying, Shy

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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• My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Widows, Charity

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• For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

  Miriam Makeba

  Fighting, Giving, Needs

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• Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

  Jon Meacham

  Military, War, Book

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• I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

  Maria Mitchell

  Appreciate, Born, Incapable

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.

  George Muller

  Opportunity, Body, Etc

  George Muller (2013). “Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, People, Want

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• I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

  Al Pacino

  Real, Scripts, Helping

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• The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Years

  "Reps. Pence, Clyburn Survey Political Landscape". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.

  Chris Pratt

  Bars, Beets, Salad

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one’s working here and one’s working there, or one’s staying at home and one’s off someplace else.

  Dennis Quaid

  Long Distance Relationship, Home, Wind

  "Dennis Quaid on Fame, Fatherhood, and His First TV Series". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 20, 2012.

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• So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Want, Taxes

  “CNN Mewsroom”, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Enterprise, Barack

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• Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Issues, Agreement, Administration

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Thinking, Soul

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• As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, People, Kind

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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  Salman Rushdie

  Two, Chinese, Literature

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• A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

  Edward Sapir

  Country, Countries Of The World, Doe

  Edward Sapir (1968). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir”, p.111, Univ of California Press

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• The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Giants, Fit

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Oct 14, 2013

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• I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Thinking, Possibility

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• Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Land, Constitution

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• There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.

  Lysander Spooner

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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