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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • History
  • Laws
  • Republic

• Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

  

  Nicole Richie
  • Child
  • Responsible
  • Examples

• I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

  

  Joey Tempest Europe
  • Music
  • Theory
  • Musicians

• The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • Happiness
  • Friendship
  • Measured

• Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Kids
  • Tupac

• We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views of life; and their examples of what it is to be a man or a woman follow us throughout life. Acknowledging the power of our loyalty to them, and especially our loyalty to our same-sex parent, is only the beginning of our journey to improve upon their model; but it is at least a first step.

  

  Augustus Napier
  • Parents
  • Loyalty
  • Examples

• Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

  

  Wilbert J. McKeachie
  • Simple
  • Professors
  • Lecturers

• Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Died
  • Martin Luther King
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Long
  • Successful
  • Short

• Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.

  

  Aaron Kampman
  • Faith
  • Christ
  • Examples

• In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Examples
  • DIscharge
  • Precepts

• No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

  

  Karl Hess
  • Perfect
  • Teacher
  • Wise

• History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Examples

• There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.

  

  Deborah Rhode
  • Integrity
  • Controversial
  • Positions

• I don't discount the privilege that comes with being the kid of two very great actors. All I can say is I'm very grateful that I've had their examples. And it's fun to get to share it with them.

  

  Zoe Perry
  • Fun
  • Grateful
  • Privilege

• History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

  

  Shigeru Yoshida
  • War
  • Winning
  • Losing

• The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Way
  • Understanding
  • Examples

• I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Science
  • Leaders
  • Christians

• We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heaven
  • Pride
  • Self-possession

• Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • Edgar Wayburn
  • American landscape

• History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • History
  • Man

• The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up.

  

  Michael Winter
  • Fantastic
  • Germans
  • Battlefield

• Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

  

  Arnaud Desjardins
  • Freedom
  • Child
  • Examples

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