"There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive."

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"There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive."

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"A good example is far better than a good precept."

Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman

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"If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place."

Francis Crick, English Scientist

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"There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else."

Ed O'Brien, English Musician

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"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

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"For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal."

Stephen Cole Kleene, American Mathematician

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"The most powerful moral influence is example."

Huston Smith, American Theologian

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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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"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

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"Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established."

George Carlin, American Comedian

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"I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters."

Maximilian Schell, Swiss Actor

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