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Henry Miller 187
American novelist 1891–1980Related quotes
“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 29
“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”
"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
“The United States is…a warning rather than an example to the world.”
To the twenty-fifth-anniversary meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1857)
1850s
“A good example is more irritating than a bad one.”
From a presentation in Munich, Jan 1991, in response to an audience question on why his competitors complained about his business practices.
“Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.”
Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709).
Source: Letters of the Late Alexander Pope, Esq. to a Lady. Never Before Published
“The power he exercises is no more dictatorial than, for example, Roosevelt's was.”
On Mao Zedong, in The Long March (1957), as quoted in "Mao and the Australian Maoists" by Keith Windschuttle, in Quadrant (October 2005) http://www.sydneyline.com/Mao%20and%20Australian%20Maoists.htm
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2000s
Variant: The world has always been more impressed by the power of our [America's] example than by the example of our power.
Context: Former U. S. president Bill Clinton has urged newspaper editors to focus more attention on the depletion of the world's oil reserves. In a June 17 speech to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention in Little Rock, Arkansas, Clinton said a "significant number of petroleum geologists" have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production. Clinton suggested that at current consumption rates (now more than 30 billion barrels per year, according to the International Energy Agency), the world could be out of "recoverable oil" in 35 to 50 years, elevating the risk of "And then finally, and I think most important of all, more important than the deficit, more important then healthcare, more important than anything, is we have got to do something about our energy strategy because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing 'til we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.”
“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”
Column, The Miami Herald, 21 January 1996
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