India Arie

Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

American Musician

Richard Dawkins

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

English Scientist

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mission to be a paragon to the rest of the world, to be about what human beings can accomplish if they work together and maintain their focus.

American Activist

Joe Russo

I've seen 'Goodfellas' a hundred times, and one of the things that I take away from that movie is dynamic pacing and energy. I just think that film is sort of a paragon of excellence in filmmaking and the compression of narrative.

American Director

Lionel Shriver

I do occasionally encounter a British business that delivers what and when, and for exactly the price, they promised. But commercial paragons in the U.K. are rare.

American Journalist

Steve Coogan

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

British Comedian

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

American Businesswoman

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

British Historian

Wayne Rogers

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

American Actor

Tennessee Williams

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

American Dramatist

Use 'paragon' to describe someone who sets the highest standard in behavior, morality, or skill.

Ideal Standard

Use 'paragon' to emphasize that nothing else matches the persons' or items' quality or characteristics.

Unmatched Quality

'Paragon' often implies that the entity sets an example worth emulating or admiring.

Role Model Emphasis

'Paragon' in printing relates to type size, important when discussing font details in historical contexts.

Printing Specificity

Understanding 'paragon' in printing can give insight into historical literature production standards.

Historical Reference

'Paragon' denotes a rare, perfect diamond, valuable in size and clarity, indicating high status or wealth.

Gem Rarity

In gemology, 'paragon' is used to convey the utmost degree of perfection in a diamond.

Exceptional Quality

 that I had a huge impact on my biosphere, everyday, and it had an impact on me, very viscerally, very literally. So I went about my Paragon Space Development Corporation, a little firm I started with people while I was in the Biosphere, because I had nothing else to do.

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 even as different parties take power. With the tremendous impact of this responsibility, it's no wonder that a US Supreme Court justice is expected to be, in the words of Irving R. Kaufman, "a paragon of virtue, an intellectual Titan, and an administrative wizard."

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 Paragon and and what fascinates me about the search for life elsewhere is the prospect that we might discover some other biochemical pathways some other way that life gets the business of living

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