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• It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

  Gene Tierney

  Writing, Glasses, Disease

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  Samantha Power

  Statesmen, Reasoning

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• With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

  Ron Wyden

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  "A Plan for Health Reform" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2007.

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• The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

  John Piper

  Believe, Mean, Authority

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• This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

  Desmond Morris

  Successful, Fundamentals, Unusual

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

  Vernon Howard

  Mind, Remember, Mental Illness

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• The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

  Carl Sagan

  Mind, Unbiased, Way

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

  Daniel Handler

  Interesting, Awareness, Persons

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• In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Powerful, Color, Smell

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• But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

  Clive Barker

  Religious, Thinking, Needs

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• By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

  Justin Martyr

  Attitude, Mind, Physicians

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• This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

  Katharine Weber

  Mind, Literature, Great Minds

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• After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

  Vin Weber

  Dark, Age, Example

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• People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

  Richard Russo

  Self, People, Details

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.204, Atlantic Books

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• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  Quintilian

  Sometimes, Expected

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• Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.

  Randy Hamilton

  Book, Police, Creation

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• Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor.

  Joe Meno

  Art, Kids, Unique

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• Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable episode from our history like opening a photograph album and examining a snapshot in time. If we then discover the episode never really happened, then our whole self is called into question. But that's only because we are so committed to the illusion that our self is a reliable story in the first place.

  Bruce Hood

  Memories, Believe, Self

  Bruce Hood (2012). “The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity”, p.91, Oxford University Press

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• If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Decision, Unions

  "Lou Dobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2003.

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• Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

  A. A. Gill

  Past, Fiction, Way

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• I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.38, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

  Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

  Ann Beattie

  Order, Diaries, Problem

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

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• The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Science, Thinking, Effectiveness

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• Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections

  Ryuho Okawa

  Reflection, Self, Practice

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