Instance Quotes - Page 8

• As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

  John Ruskin

  Ideas, Roots, Astrology

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.229, University of Virginia Press

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• I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Years, Class, Bakers

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Disappointment, Errors, Jewels

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• I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

  Moby

  Japan, Titles, France

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• I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Knows, Misfortunes

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

  N. T. Wright

  Thinking, Stuff, Doctrine

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I think it's really hard to say now what makes a show kind of sink or swim, and what creates longevity. For instance, I think that Survivor is a very well produced show. It's very simple, it's very elemental, and I think it gets into big issues. I think American Idol has been an amazing show for many, many seasons.

  Dan Cutforth

  Simple, Thinking, Idols

  "Reality Check: Dan Cutforth On What Keeps ‘Top Chef’ Sharp, Cutting Through The Clutter & What’s Next". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Justice

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

  James Madison

  Practice, Abuse, Growth

  "Report on the Virginia Resolutions" (1799 - 1800)

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• But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

  Isaac Asimov

  New York, Diversity, Giving

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.

  Jon Meacham

  Jesus, Divorce, Biblical

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• Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Males, Lasts

  Mariah Burton Nelson (1994). “The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports”, Harcourt

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• This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope.

  Ada Lovelace

  Differences, Facts, Incapable

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• Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.

  Sigmund Freud

  Connections, Doe, Use

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (2001). “Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics”, p.31, Psychology Press

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• The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

  George Washington

  Gratitude, Return, Peculiar

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1778). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Numbers, Worry, Firsts

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Lying, Mean

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• I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Wine, America

  Benjamin Franklin (1815). “The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition”, p.199

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

  John Hench

  Color, Cities, Feelings

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• The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.

  Delphine Arnault

  Fashion, Art, Wife

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• I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.

  Isabel Allende

  Jobs, Writing, Stories

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.

  Grant Heslov

  Book, Men, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

  Brian Blessed

  Kings, Thinking, Differences

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