“ We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. ”
- Malcolm Boyd- Copy
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“ Vietnam has the opportunity to look at all the models that have worked and take the best of those models and apply its own unique approach to its development. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done. ”
- Paula Poundstone- Copy
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“ The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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