"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."

Example, Magic, Man, Religious

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"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."

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"May 30 word: Example"People believe a lot more of what they see you do than what they hear you do. That's why it is important that we take the responsibility to set a good, Biblical example. How we live in front of people and even behind closed doors at home is essential to being an effective witness."

Joyce Meyer, American Author

Example, People, Responsibility, Witness

"Be an example and open a new way for life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Example, Life, Way, Teaching

"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to."

Andrew Shue, American Actor

Example, Parents, Teachers

"Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know."

Steve Irwin, Australian Scientist

Example, Favorite

"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure."

Lara St. John, Canadian Musician

Example, Months, Want, Woman

"Be an example, be kind and be simple."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Example, Simplicity, Kindness, Life

"It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example."

Lauren Bush, American Model

Example, Job, Want

"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography."

Michael Polanyi, Hungarian Scientist

Example,

"I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example."

Maurice Ashley, Jamaican Celebrity

Example, Talking, Years

"To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first."

Walther Bothe, German Physicist

Example, First, May, State

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"The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years."

Now

"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."

People

"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."

Killing

"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."

Animals

"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."

Age

"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."

People

"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."

America

"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."

End

"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."

Life

"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."

Europe