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«There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.»
«Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Metaphysics,
Religion,
Science
| Keywords:
decency, definitions, for example, measurement, measurements
«The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?»
Author: Judith Hayes
| Keywords:
ark, bears, biblical, flood, for example, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, implausible, loading, Noah, Palestine, polar, The Flood
«Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!»
Author: Marvin Minsky
(Educator, Electrical engineer, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
cars, drives, for example, individual differences, societies, the left
«Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
decorate, decorated, decorating, developing, developing countries, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, food supply, for example, for that matter, import, imported, imports, Interior, in relation to, local, of import, relation to, scheme, supply
«Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
boob, boobs, bun, buns, come across, Dallas, for example, middle ages, monkish, or so, periodical, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, rape, related, Romans, screening, types
«Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
beer, beers, beer can, chemicals, example, for example, hydrogen, ingredient, make water, oxygen, such as, vital
«To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.»
«Recently, there's been a trend in America that I find very disturbing . . . rewarding immoral and illegal behavior. . . . For example, we now give free needles to junkies, which seems to me to be only a step away from giving condoms to rapists.»
«The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
anti-Semitism, anti, back room, Citizens for, civil, civil right, civil war, disunity, Equal rights, ethnic, for example, go back, Long War, minority, racial, Racial hatred, racism, Semitism, The Civil War, transcending
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