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• If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on which the imposture was detected, should be clearly and logically stated, that those who have been sincerely yet unfortunately deceived, may perceive the nature of the deception and be reclaimed, and that those who continue to publish the delusion, may be exposed and silenced.

  Orson Pratt

  Honesty, Deception, World

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• It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this goes against the current grain. All they thought about was: `You're here. You made the exam. You can do the work. And if you can't, we'll throw you out.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Latin, Home

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Confused, Men, Mirrors

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• It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as are in the books [The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John]. They are more numerous and striking than I had any expectation of finding, when I began this examination.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Book, Expectations

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• In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Self, Ordinary, Employment

  Jeremy Taylor (1851). “Readings for every day in Lent”, p.45

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• Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

  Gary Player

  Wind, Long, Tests

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• I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination where they said. "Describe the Devil," and in order to get 12 points on that question one had to say that the Devil was red and had a forked tail and cloven hoofs and fangs and horns on his head. So I merrily wrote this answer down and got my 12 points. I always got straight hundreds in Bible study.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  College, Order, Intellectual

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• I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.

  Stephen Beal

  Wall, Space, Afar

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

  Wentworth Miller

  College, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.

  Philip Kitcher

  Details, Would Be, Vivid

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with their work. That is why I am not a proponent of the concept of unconditional basic income. I am, however, very much in favor of decent wage agreements, secure and lasting jobs, employee participation in decision-making and the examination of the social justification for claims and payments.

  Martin Schulz

  Jobs, Party, Agreement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. But, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that Americans have not been living into them.

  George Saunders

  Book, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally.

  Harry Treadaway

  Stories, Brilliant, Commit

  Source: collider.com

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• Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

  Sebastian Copeland

  Climate, Moments, Process

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So I like switching it up. I like that people are laughing but they don't even know if they should be laughing. I think that's interesting. I think it makes for a fun movie. And you're far more likely to be able to actually get something into someone's head if they don't quite see it coming, as opposed to delivering a very serious examination.

  Richard Shepard

  Fun, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Fate, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.62, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Responsibility, Thinking, Government

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.

  Kent Nerburn

  Years, Wind, Land

  Kent Nerburn (1996). “A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land”

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• Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Communication, Ignorance, Past

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• We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Diversity, Political

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• Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

  Henry Rosovsky

  Moving, College, Asian

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Discovery, Law, Doubt

  John Henry Wigmore (1923). “A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the Statutes and Judicial Decisions of All Jurisdictions of the United States and Canada”

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• All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Religious, Men, World

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• If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Mad, Liberty

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