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• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Second Chance

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

  Ruth Benedict

  War, Bears, Merit

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

  Ronald Fisher

  Experiments, Posts, Died

  Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya 4, 14-17, 1938.

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• Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

  Joseph Muscat

  Opportunity, Students, Study

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• Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Views, Ministry

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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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• 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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• When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

  Helen Keller

  Brain, Mind, Use

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.56, 谷月社

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• But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Mind, Depth

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

  Freeman Dyson

  Education, Years, Best Year

  "The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics". Book edited by Timothy Ferris and Clifton Fadiman, 1991.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

  Andre Gide

  Distance, Eye, Past

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• Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of a philosophical character; we act on them in private life, in politics, in our work, and in every other sphere of our lives -- but while some of these assumptions are no doubt true, it is likely, that more are false and some are harmful. So the critical examination of our presuppositions -- which is a philosophical activity -- is morally as well as intellectually important.

  Karl Popper

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Character

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• I suggest that all who listen to my voice would benefit by an examination of the lives of those we sustain as general officers of the Church. You will find some important examples among them and come to know those who have "a perfect heart."

  Monte J. Brough

  Heart, Voice, Perfect

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• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Self, Different

  "Vera Farmiga's Unforgettable Role". PARADE interview, parade.com. November 6, 2008.

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