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Example is better than following it.

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce Journalist

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Ambrose Bierce Journalist

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Ambrose Bierce Journalist

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Ambrose Bierce Journalist

Marco Rubio, as an example, he's got no money, zero.I think that's fine, that's OK, maybe it's good politically to say you owe money because you overborrowed on your credit cards. He's got nothing. I mean, he's got nothing.

Donald Trump 45th President Of The United States

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Abraham Cahan Editor

When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.

Akbar Ganji Journalist

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

Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist

Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

Alexander Mccall Smith Writer

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Alfred De Vigny Poet

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