#ample

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#anyway #beethoven #compose #done #example

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #deserve #every #everything #example

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it. ↗

— Leon Uris

#aspects #born #buy #course #english

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. ↗

— George Washington

#day #europe #example #following #some

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#example #game #how #manage #men

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#depends #example #largely #own #personal

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves. ↗

— George William Norris

#done #example #follow #ought #ourselves

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#itself #terror #world

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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