Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
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Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
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All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
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I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.
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You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
