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• To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Self, Envy, Complacency

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• When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments. Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Thinking, Self, Analyzing

  "Jennifer Lopez: The All-Star". Interview with Jane Fonda, www.glamour.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.

  Wes Craven

  Pain, Fall, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Criticism, Age, Tests

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Pure Reason”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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• I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here? - that is not right but for we are here, but only just here. If we don't hold what we have we may never find it again, so delicate a thing it is, yet it gives the appearance of being overpowerful on close examination... I don't think a change of location can answer our questions.

  Joy Hester

  Wisdom, Thinking, Years

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• The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fiction, Freak, Conscience

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• Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."

  Nancy Reagan

  Cancer, Hearing, Firsts

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• Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Taken, Ideas

  Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.

  Richard Owen

  Science, Animal, Law

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• I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Army, Study, Cases

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• The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is for the Lord, and the less freedom there is. It is my opinion that we ought to begin an unsparing examination of conscience on this point at all levels in the Church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Church

  Pope Benedict XVI (1996). “Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today”, p.90, Ignatius Press

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• On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. Charity will be the whole syllabus.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Faith, Inspiration, Charity

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• An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.

  Sir John Woodroffe

  Philosophical, India, Tunes

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• Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of the fat metabolism, since by definition excessive accumulation of fat is the underlying abnormality.

  Hilde Bruch

  Ideas, Done, Research

  "The Importance of Overweight".

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• A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

  William Henry Harrison

  Government, Presidential, Should

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• I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Coats, Saws, Chance

  "Cite libre" Journal, April 1963.

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• Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.

  Samantha Dunn

  Heart, Love Is, Self

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• In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

  Tom Chatfield

  Self, Age, Connections

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.

  Karen Walker

  Writing, Character, Consciousness

  "The AU Interview: Monika and Karen Walker of The New Tarot (New York) talk about their new single 'On baby'". www.theaureview.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Atheist, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Mean, Ideas, Doe

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