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• Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

  Richard Hornby

  Theatre, Acting, Identity

  Richard Hornby (1986). “Drama, Metadrama and Perception”, p.71, Associated University Presse

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• his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Feelings, Desire

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• Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  History, Posts, Died

  Finley Peter Dunne (1976). “Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: The Autobiography of a Nineteenth-century Ethnic Group”, Catholic University of Amer Press

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• I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

  Tom Hanks

  War, Hero, Gone

  "Captain Courageous: Tom Hanks and Capt. Richard Phillips". Interview with Katherine Heintzelman and Jennifer Rainey Marquez, parade.com. September 21, 2013.

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• Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Happiness, Wise

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Mar 05, 2012

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• Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Attitude, Regret

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “By Space Possessed”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• ...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

  James M. Barrie

  Kings, Paper, Want

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.

  Choi Sung-bong

  School, Years, Three

  "Choi Sung Bong's moving rendition on Korea's Got Talent induces tears and controversy". www.allkpop.com. June 06, 2011.

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• Suffering is our best teacher because it
  hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip
  until we have learnt that particular
  lesson. Only then does suffering let go. If
  we haven’t learnt our lesson, we can be
  quite sure that the same lesson is going
  to come again, because life is nothing but
  an adult education class, If we don’t pass
  in any of the subjects, we just have to sit
  the examination again. Whatever lesson
  we have missed, we will get it again. That
  is why we find ourselves reacting to
  similar situations in similar ways many
  times.

  Ayya Khema

  Letting Go, Teacher, Class

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• I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• Wherever God erects a house of prayer
  the Devil always builds a chapel there;
  And 't will be found, upon examination,
  the latter has the largest congregation.

  Daniel Defoe

  Prayer, House, Atheism

  'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 1, l. 1.

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• The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must understand that the principle factor which makes for success or failure is the form of a state's constitution: it is from this source, as if from a fountainhead, that all designs and plans of action not only originate but reach their fulfillment.

  Polybius

  Design, Political, Principles

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• Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

  David Brock

  Journey, Sight, Self

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• The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fate, June, Practice

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• Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

  John Updike

  Self, Fiction, Instruments

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.92, Random House

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• So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.

  Ally Carter

  Two, Voice, Long

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• I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of the imagination and aren't any rules, but there are principles. The first one is that art is a process, not a product. In fact, that holds true for damn near everything we do in life. The product is just something that happens. If you're faithful to the process, the product takes care of itself.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Art, Writing, Imagination

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• GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

  Tom Stoppard

  Fear, Emotion, Defence

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

  James Hervey

  Teacher, Intelligent, Men

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• Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Quality, Inquiring

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• I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Expression, Novelists

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• Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it happen to us. It is really freedom, an entry into another, higher life. We must utilize this life in order to realize the life beyond this one. Beyond this earth garden is the infinite land wherein we meet those whom we have thought lost. Although we must not seek death, when it comes we should know that it is the final examination for a great reward.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Death, Garden

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• I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Speech at press conference, 17 Nov. 1973, in New York Times 18 Nov. 1973, p. 62

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• Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

  Bertrand Russell

  Differences, Finding Yourself, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.99, Routledge

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