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• Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.

  Joan D. Chittister

  People, Routine, Asking

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• If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

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  Ram Dass

  Reality, Creating, Mind

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• After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Historical Novels, Venture, Modern

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• More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Flow, Essentials

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.494, Mango Media Inc.

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• The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.

  Jennifer Echols

  Doors, Nurse, Rooms

  Jennifer Echols (2009). “The Ex Games”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures.

  John Grant

  Ocean, Animal, Turtles

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• Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

  William Zinsser

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

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• We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Heart, Heaven Sent

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• Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear of infecting others, who was terrified he would pass on his condition to his son. And it was a way of examining prejudice, unwarranted prejudice towards a group of people. And also, examining why people might become embittered when they're treated that unfairly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, People, Way

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• During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before every major competition, to become familiar with the angles. Then I can envision what it will look and feel like when I am the only one on the ice going into a combination jump, skating backwards or getting ready for my triple Lutz. I know exactly where I will be, and so when it comes time to actually perform my routine, ever step and element will be like deja vu.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Competition

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• The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Jewels, Crosses

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• The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

  William James Mayo

  Physicians, Examination, Fingers

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• In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Thinking, Views, Play

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• A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• The unlived life is not worth examining.

  Old Tom Morris

  Perception, Life Is, Miscellaneous

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• It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Humility, Exercise

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: A plain account of Christian perfection. The appeals to men of reason and religion. Principles of the Methodists, &c”, p.62

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• In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

  William Pollard

  Mistake, Focus, Kitchen

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• Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.

  Seth

  Meaningful, Evil, People

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• I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

  Emily Mortimer

  Real, Inspiration, East London

  Source: collider.com

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• I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

  Dean Spade

  Development, Study, Scholarly

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• When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.

  Clive James

  Funny, Cutting, Shoes

  Clive James (1991). “Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)”, Isis Large Print Books

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• For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of
  his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

  Herodotus

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Herodotus (2015). “The Histories Book 3: Thaleia”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, Giving

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• To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  White, Silence, Arena

  "Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings" edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, (p. 387), 2000.

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• Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

  Matt Groening

  Anxiety, Doe, Good And Bad

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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